Balcis micans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- shining balcisPBDB
- Sits inside
- BalcisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Eulimidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eulimidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Eulimidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
24 occurrences of Balcis micans on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
24 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
5 formations
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation11
- San Pedro Sand Formation3
- Palos Verdes Formation2
- Careaga Sandstone Formation1
- Lomita Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Balcis micans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Balcis micans and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Balcis micans and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
975 taxa- Dentalium neohexagonum19 sites
- Caesia fossatus18 sites
- Caesia perpinguis18 sites
- Callianax biplicata18 sites
- Leptopecten latiauratus18 sites
- Saccella taphria18 sites
- Acteocina culcitella17 sites
- Cryptomya californica17 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii17 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana17 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli17 sites
- Mitrella gausapata17 sites
- Californiconus californicus16 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum16 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa16 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus16 sites
- Tivela (Pachydesma) stultorum16 sites
- Acanthinucella spirata15 sites
- Anomia peruviana15 sites
- Turritella cooperi15 sites
- Callianax pedroana14 sites
- Fissurella volcano14 sites
- Hirtoscala hindsii14 sites
- Hirtoscala tincta14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Balcis micans, 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
14 references- A monograph of west American melanellid mollusks6
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California3
- The paleontology of the Pleistocene molluscan fauna of the Newport Bay area, California3
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California2
- Late Pleistocene molluscan faunas from upper terraces of the Palos Verdes Hills, California1
- Late Pleistocene marine paleoecology and zoogeography on Central California1
- Pleistocene invertebrates from the Dume Terrace, western Santa Monica Mountains, California1
- Upper Pleistocene Mollusca from Potrero Canyon, Pacific Palisades, California1
- New Californian Pleistocene Eulimidae1
- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California1
- The paleontology and stratigraphy of the Pleistocene at Signal hill, Long Beach, California1
- Report on Pleistocene Molluscan Fauna at Capistrano Beach, Orange County, Calif1
Each of the 24 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. 2 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
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GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Balcis micans, 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 itBalcis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1864)