Aurila

Aurila

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HemicytheridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Hemicytheridae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 131 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 131 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 131 occurrencesOligocene — about 10 of 131 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 107 of 131 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 131 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 131 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 12 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 16 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 30 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 32 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

131 occurrences of Aurila 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

131 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

12 formations

Gliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EAntigua — 17.17°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.15°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WCibao Marl — 18.38°N, 66.98°WLares Limestone — 18.37°N, 67.00°WKaplankaya — 36.90°N, 34.50°ESan Sebastián — 18.35°N, 67.00°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WLagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WRosignano Limestone — 43.43°N, 10.45°E

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The named rock units Aurila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aurila and its relatives

Miocene

Where Aurila and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Aurila, 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

19 references

Each of the 131 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. 7 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 content2

Picture of Aurila

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itHemicytheridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.