Balcis oldroydae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.
12 occurrences of Balcis oldroydae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
12 occurrences- Miocene8%
- Pleistocene92%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Balcis oldroydae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Balcis oldroydae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Balcis oldroydae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
931 taxa- Thylacodes squamigerus7 sites
- Balcis micans6 sites
- Californiconus californicus6 sites
- Callianax biplicata6 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium6 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii6 sites
- Epilucina californica6 sites
- Lirobittium rugatum6 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata6 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli6 sites
- Saccella taphria6 sites
- Saxidomus nuttalli6 sites
- Acanthinucella spirata5 sites
- Acteocina culcitella5 sites
- Amiantis callosa5 sites
- Anomia peruviana5 sites
- Caecum crebricinctum5 sites
- Caesia fossatus5 sites
- Caesia perpinguis5 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum5 sites
- Caryocorbula luteola5 sites
- Chama arcana5 sites
- Chione undatella5 sites
- Crossata ventricosa5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Balcis oldroydae, 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
8 references- A monograph of west American melanellid mollusks4
- A review of the Quaternary Mollusca of the Palos Verdes Peninsula2
- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California1
- Habitats and Sources of Pleistocene Mollusks at Torrey Pines Park, California1
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California1
- Upper Pleistocene Mollusca from Potrero Canyon, Pacific Palisades, California1
- Distributional List of the West American Marine Molluscs from San Diego, California to the Polar Sea1
- An Upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Balcis oldroydae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Balcis oldroydae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balcis oldroydae 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 itBalcis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bartsch 1917)