Graciliala

Graciliala

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArrhoginaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 100 of 102 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 102 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 102 occurrencesEocene84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 14 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 14 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 14 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 14 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 12 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya56 Mya84.3 Mya47.4 Mya

102 occurrences of Graciliala 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

102 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

18 formations

Providence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 33.34°N, 95.40°WCorsicana Marl — 33.15°N, 96.04°WCorsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.59°N, 96.32°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.52°N, 96.58°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.93°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.78°N, 88.89°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 32.62°N, 89.53°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WNacatoch Sand — 32.05°N, 96.41°WChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.84°WEnglishtown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPeedee — 33.89°N, 79.41°WWolfe City — 30.27°N, 97.74°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WTaylor Marl — 27.73°N, 101.33°W

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The named rock units Graciliala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Graciliala and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Graciliala and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,024 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Graciliala, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

14 references

Each of the 102 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. 2 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 Graciliala

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sohl 1960