Carota dilleri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarotaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
19 occurrences of Carota dilleri 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
19 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
6 formations
- Redding Formation11
- Sidney Island Formation2
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group1
- Pinos Formation · Valle Group1
- Ladd Formation1
- Chico Formation1
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The named rock units Carota dilleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Carota dilleri and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Carota dilleri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Biplica isoplicata8 sites
- Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana8 sites
- Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana7 sites
- Ostrea malleiformis7 sites
- Paosia californica6 sites
- Drilluta sicca4 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli4 sites
- Latiala nodosa4 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia4 sites
- Actaeonella oviformis3 sites
- Caryocorbula traskii3 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida3 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica3 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii3 sites
- Gymnarus manubriatus3 sites
- Liocium punctatum3 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) lirata3 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus3 sites
- Tenea3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa2 sites
- Acteon politus2 sites
- Astarte tuscana2 sites
- Atresius liratus2 sites
- Baculites chicoensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Carota dilleri, 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- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California11
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast2
- Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) lithostratigraphy and biochronology, southern Gulf Islands, British Columbia, and northern San Juan Islands, Washington State1
- New Cretaceous cerithiform gastropods from the Pacific Slope of North America1
- Three new Turonian muricacean gastropods from the Santa Ana Mountains, Southern California1
- Additions to Pacific slope Turonian Gastropoda1
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
- The Rocks of the Sierra Nevada1
Each of the 19 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 content1
Picture of Carota dilleri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Carota dilleri 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 itCarota through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (White 1889)