Benoistia

Benoistia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachytrematidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 78 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 78 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 42 of 78 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 31 of 78 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 78 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 6 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 6 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 7 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya33.9 Mya66.9 Mya22.2 Mya

78 occurrences of Benoistia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

78 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

19 formations

Falun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°EJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.72°WFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WCzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EFalun d'Ormoy — 48.40°N, 2.15°EMarkley — 38.47°N, 122.04°WWoolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCalcaire Grossier d'Etrechy — 48.48°N, 2.23°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.43°N, 2.15°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°ELlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WDelmar — 33.16°N, 117.21°WSepultura — 28.55°N, 114.09°W

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The named rock units Benoistia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Benoistia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Benoistia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,242 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Benoistia, 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

17 references

Each of the 78 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. 5 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 Benoistia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Benoistia 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 itBrachytrematidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1899