Babylonella

Babylonella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CancellariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 5 of 64 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 64 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 51 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 64 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 64 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 13 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 15 occurrences12–9.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.6–7.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.5–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.4–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences59.24 Mya3.6 Mya63 Mya1 Mya

64 occurrences of Babylonella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

64 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

11 formations

Berada — 51.10°N, 5.80°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°ELillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°EVejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°EViborg — 56.00°N, 9.25°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°E

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The named rock units Babylonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Babylonella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Babylonella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

580 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Babylonella, 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

11 references

Each of the 64 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. 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 Babylonella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Babylonella 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 itCancellariidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1865