Thecideidae

Thecideidae

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ThecideoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Thecideida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Thecideida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thecideida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 200 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 95 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 95 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 10 of 95 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 95 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 33 of 95 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 95 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 95 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 95 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 95 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 95 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 95 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–168 Mya — about 5 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 8 occurrences154–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–133 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences133–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 5 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 10 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 15 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 5 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences201.4 Mya774 ka210 Mya0 Mya

95 occurrences of Thecideidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

95 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

26 formations

Ciply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk — 50.42°N, 3.94°EKorojon — 22.99°S, 114.09°EKorojon — 22.88°S, 114.13°ESant'Agata Fossili — 45.06°N, 7.94°EBirdlip Limestone — 51.86°N, 2.08°WBirdlip Limestone — 51.85°N, 2.11°WBirdlip Limestone — 51.73°N, 2.24°WBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.68°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.82°EGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WChay — 46.10°N, 1.13°WWaititi — 35.55°S, 173.44°EWaititi — 35.55°S, 173.49°EPattenau — 47.83°N, 12.69°ECalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WPlanava — 49.58°N, 18.12°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSaint-Symphorien — 50.43°N, 4.00°EKoessen — 47.87°N, 16.05°EMarna Euganea — 45.33°N, 11.69°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WFalun de St. Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WFalun d'Escornebeou et Sainte Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WClayton — 31.51°N, 85.24°WObourg — 50.41°N, 3.92°ESzepvolgy Limestone — 47.46°N, 18.93°EDnieper Beds — 48.45°N, 35.15°E

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The named rock units Thecideidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecideidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Thecideidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,373 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Thecideidae, 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

43 references

Each of the 95 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. 31 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Thecideidae

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thecideidae 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 itThecideoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1840