Serpulorbis

Searched as Aletes. The Paleobiology Database treats Serpulorbis as the accepted name.

Serpulorbis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VermetidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Vermetidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Vermetidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Vermetidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 274 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 274 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 58 of 274 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 274 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 86 of 274 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 71 of 274 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 274 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 13 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 19 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 35 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 69 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 44 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

274 occurrences of Serpulorbis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

274 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

84 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.25°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.00°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.78°N, 92.49°WMoodys Branch — 31.60°N, 92.80°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 31.74°N, 96.55°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 98.99°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 63.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.60°N, 67.03°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.70°N, 76.97°WAquia — 38.99°N, 76.16°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WSubmeseta — 64.26°S, 56.62°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.66°WSubmeseta — 64.23°S, 56.63°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 30.98°N, 88.73°WMint Spring — 31.66°N, 88.66°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.91°WGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.07°WRio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.64°N, 76.52°WKirkwood — 39.08°N, 74.82°WKirkwood — 39.15°N, 74.69°WKirkwood — 39.47°N, 75.35°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°W

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The named rock units Serpulorbis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Serpulorbis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Serpulorbis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,849 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Serpulorbis, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

82 references

Each of the 274 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. 70 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 Serpulorbis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter 1857