Balanidae

The Balanidae is a family of barnacles of the order Balanomorpha. As a result of research published in 2021 by Chan et al., the members of the family Archaeobalanidae were merged with this family.

Balanidae

DOI (Department of the Interior) · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
BalanoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunal, gregariousPBDB
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia

Time the record covers

At least 184 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 859 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 859 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 859 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 859 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 859 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 859 occurrencesEocene — about 35 of 859 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 44 of 859 occurrencesMiocene — about 332 of 859 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 150 of 859 occurrencesPleistocene — about 273 of 859 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences118–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 6 occurrences39–33 Mya — about 29 occurrences33–26 Mya — about 23 occurrences26–20 Mya — about 85 occurrences20–13 Mya — about 117 occurrences13–6.6 Mya — about 117 occurrences6.6–0 Mya — about 475 occurrences184.2 Mya11.7 ka197 Mya0 Mya

859 occurrences of Balanidae 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

859 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

159 formations

Vaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.65°N, 117.81°WVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WVaqueros — 33.77°N, 117.89°WVaqueros — 33.70°N, 117.71°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.09°N, 119.04°WVaqueros — 34.05°N, 118.87°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.06°N, 118.85°WVaqueros — 34.07°N, 118.71°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 118.82°WVaqueros — 34.32°N, 119.08°WVaqueros — 34.36°N, 118.94°WVaqueros — 34.45°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 118.91°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 119.02°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 119.33°WVaqueros — 34.44°N, 119.20°WVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 120.29°WVaqueros — 34.53°N, 120.35°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.92°N, 119.13°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.66°N, 120.92°WVaqueros — 35.64°N, 120.93°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.78°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 35.77°N, 120.93°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WChoptank — 38.43°N, 76.44°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WChoptank — 38.32°N, 76.41°WChoptank — 38.42°N, 76.54°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WSt Marys — 38.32°N, 76.42°WSt Marys — 38.16°N, 76.44°WSt Marys — 38.27°N, 76.15°WSt Marys — 37.86°N, 76.82°WSt Marys — 38.36°N, 76.39°WYorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 36.76°N, 76.37°WYorktown — 35.37°N, 76.78°WYorktown — 35.61°N, 77.33°WYorktown — 37.40°N, 76.82°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WPancho Rico — 36.69°N, 121.63°WPancho Rico — 36.24°N, 121.29°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WPancho Rico — 35.99°N, 120.91°WPancho Rico — 36.20°N, 121.03°WPancho Rico — 36.13°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 35.94°N, 120.68°WPancho Rico — 35.97°N, 120.73°WPancho Rico — 36.25°N, 121.29°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WTamiami — 26.98°N, 82.21°WTamiami — 26.89°N, 82.01°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WTamiami — 27.36°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.43°WCoquimbo — 29.97°S, 71.37°WCoquimbo — 30.33°S, 71.50°WDry Branch — 33.12°N, 81.70°WDry Branch — 33.58°N, 81.42°WDry Branch — 33.62°N, 81.68°WDry Branch — 33.50°N, 84.74°WEtchegoin — 35.90°N, 120.00°WEtchegoin — 36.02°N, 120.04°WEtchegoin — 36.02°N, 120.27°WEtchegoin — 36.20°N, 121.08°WEtchegoin — 36.12°N, 120.41°WEtchegoin — 36.06°N, 120.48°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.31°WEtchegoin — 36.95°N, 120.16°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.12°S, 71.34°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.24°S, 71.44°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.25°S, 71.46°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.27°S, 71.46°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.34°S, 71.57°WCalvert — 38.52°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.65°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WJames City — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 1.15°S, 47.10°WPirabas — 2.88°S, 41.67°WBear Lake — 55.50°N, 160.84°WBear Lake — 56.06°N, 160.91°WBear Lake — 56.03°N, 160.05°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WEastover — 37.64°N, 76.57°WEastover — 37.18°N, 76.78°WEastover — 37.40°N, 76.82°WSespe — 33.77°N, 117.68°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.09°S, 71.14°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.38°S, 71.17°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.61°S, 71.24°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Balanidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 135 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 247 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balanidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Balanidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,949 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 570 sites for Balanidae, and this reads 240 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

219 references

Each of the 859 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. 207 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 Balanidae

Credit
DOI (Department of the Interior)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBalanoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1817