Balanus halosydne

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BalanusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Balanidae
Life habit
epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Balanidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Balanidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia

Time the record covers

At least 4.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocene34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27.3 Mya23.04 Mya34.4 Mya19.9 Mya

5 occurrences of Balanus halosydne on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

5 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

3 formations

Ashley — 32.81°N, 80.11°WAshley — 32.98°N, 80.23°WSilverdale — 34.80°N, 77.17°WPollocksville — 34.87°N, 77.24°W

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The named rock units Balanus halosydne has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Balanus halosydne and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Balanus halosydne and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Balanus halosydne, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Balanus halosydne was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Balanus halosydne, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itBalanus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zullo et al. 1992