Synapta

Synapta

The original uploader was Elapied at French Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 2.0 fr · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SynaptidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Apodida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Apodida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Apodida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 3.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 233.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Synapta on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1 occurrences

These 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

1 formation

San Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°E

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The named rock units Synapta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Synapta and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Synapta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Synapta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Synapta

Credit
The original uploader was Elapied at French Wikipedia .
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Synapta 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 itSynaptidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eschscholtz 1829