Banis
No picture of Banis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Banis itself, so it was not used. 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 Banis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NaticidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Banis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
16 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Escondido Formation9
- Nacatoch Sand Formation5
- Providence Formation1
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group1
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The named rock units Banis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Banis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Banis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
246 taxa- Cymbophora13 sites
- Striarca10 sites
- Turritella trilira9 sites
- Corbula8 sites
- Dentalium leve8 sites
- Trachycardium8 sites
- Gyrodes7 sites
- Leptosolen biplicata7 sites
- Ostrea7 sites
- Serpula7 sites
- Turritella7 sites
- Anomia ornata6 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum6 sites
- Nemodon6 sites
- Crassostrea5 sites
- Ethmocardium5 sites
- Euspira5 sites
- Graphidula5 sites
- Liopeplum cretaceum5 sites
- Lutema5 sites
- Nucula5 sites
- Nuculana5 sites
- Pterocerella5 sites
- Stantonella interrupta5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Banis, 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
4 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain9
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas5
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf1
- Cretaceous megafossil faunas of the Coalinga region1
Each of the 16 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 Banis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Banis itself, so it was not used.
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 Banis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Banis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNaticidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1941