Balanomorpha

The Balanomorpha are an order of barnacles, containing familiar sessile shelled acorn barnacles of the seashore. The order contains these families:

Balanomorpha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThoracicalcareaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
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 1065 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1065 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1065 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 1065 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 78 of 1065 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 1065 occurrencesEocene — about 45 of 1065 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 52 of 1065 occurrencesMiocene — about 364 of 1065 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 162 of 1065 occurrencesPleistocene — about 339 of 1065 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 3 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 5 occurrences92–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–79 Mya — about 6 occurrences79–72 Mya — about 8 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 56 occurrences66–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 6 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 8 occurrences39–33 Mya — about 34 occurrences33–26 Mya — about 28 occurrences26–20 Mya — about 93 occurrences20–13 Mya — about 121 occurrences13–6.6 Mya — about 127 occurrences6.6–0 Mya — about 565 occurrences184.2 Mya11.7 ka197 Mya0 Mya

1,065 occurrences of Balanomorpha 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

1,065 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

179 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°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°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°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°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°WTamiami — 26.98°N, 82.21°WTamiami — 26.89°N, 82.01°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 27.36°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.43°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°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°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°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°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°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WCalvert — 38.52°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.65°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WJames City — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 46.77°WPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 1.15°S, 47.10°WPirabas — 2.88°S, 41.67°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WBear Lake — 55.50°N, 160.84°WBear Lake — 56.06°N, 160.91°WBear Lake — 56.03°N, 160.05°WEastover — 37.64°N, 76.57°WEastover — 37.18°N, 76.78°WEastover — 37.40°N, 76.82°WSespe — 33.77°N, 117.68°WDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.23°WDiscovery Point — 29.10°N, 118.25°WDiscovery Point — 29.07°N, 118.24°W

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The named rock units Balanomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 155 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 372 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balanomorpha and its relatives

Miocene

Where Balanomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,742 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 711 sites for Balanomorpha, 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

258 references

Each of the 1,065 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. 246 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 Balanomorpha

Credit
Stemonitis
Licence
Copyrighted free use
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.

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pilsbry 1916)