Stearnsia
No picture of Stearnsia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stearnsia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScambulinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Stearnsia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
- Pawpaw Formation · Washita Group1
- Mojado Formation · Bisbee Group1
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The named rock units Stearnsia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stearnsia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Stearnsia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Lima2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Artica ? compacta1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cymatoceras1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Engonoceras1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Exogyra clarki1 site
- Granocardium (Criocardium) budaense1 site
- Homomya budaensis1 site
- Leptostyrax macrorhiza1 site
- Linuparus adkinsi1 site
- Mantelliceras1 site
- Neithea1 site
- Neithea texana1 site
- Paraisurus macrorhizus1 site
- Peilinia quadriplicata1 site
- Poecilocrinus dispandus1 site
- Praescabrotrigonia clavigera1 site
- Protocardia1 site
- Pseudohypolophus1 site
- Pterotrigonia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Stearnsia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- A nodosaurid scuteling from the Texas shore of the Western Interior Seaway1
- Ammonite Faunas of the Sarten Sandstone (Cretaceous), Luna County, New Mexico1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Stearnsia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stearnsia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stearnsia was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itScambulinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. White 1887