Fulgerca attenuata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FulgercaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Fulgerca attenuata 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
25 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
8 formations
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group9
- Providence Formation5
- Corsicana Marl Formation5
- Severn Formation2
- Prairie Bluff Formation1
- Escondido Formation1
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The named rock units Fulgerca attenuata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fulgerca attenuata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Fulgerca attenuata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
753 taxa- Paladmete cancellaria17 sites
- Cymbophora16 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum16 sites
- Nuculana16 sites
- Striarca15 sites
- Turritella trilira15 sites
- Creonella subangulata14 sites
- Dentalium leve14 sites
- Anomia argentaria13 sites
- Creonella triplicata13 sites
- Morea marylandica13 sites
- Syncyclonema13 sites
- Acteon12 sites
- Bellifusus curvicostatus12 sites
- Corbula12 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta12 sites
- Cylichna12 sites
- Nymphalucina linearia12 sites
- Turritella bilira12 sites
- Cyprimeria11 sites
- Drilluta distans11 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani11 sites
- Micrabacia11 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Fulgerca attenuata, 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
7 references- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations7
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain6
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain5
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Sedimentology and extinction patterns across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval in East Texas1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 25 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Fulgerca attenuata 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 Fulgerca attenuata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fulgerca attenuata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFulgerca through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wade 1926)