Gyrodes (Sohlella) pacificus
J. Alderson · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Gyrodes (Sohlella)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Gyrodes
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Gyrodes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gyrodes
- 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.
9 occurrences of Gyrodes (Sohlella) pacificus 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
9 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
5 formations
- Williams Formation4
- Chatsworth Formation2
- Pigeon Point Formation1
- Rosario Formation1
- Pleasants Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Gyrodes (Sohlella) pacificus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gyrodes (Sohlella) pacificus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gyrodes (Sohlella) pacificus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Biplica obliqua7 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana7 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana6 sites
- Atira ornatissima5 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii5 sites
- Paraesa lens5 sites
- Pentzia hilgardi5 sites
- Perissitys pacifica5 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa4 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii4 sites
- Cymbophora popenoei4 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) daileyi4 sites
- Metaplacenticeras pacificum4 sites
- Trinacria cor4 sites
- Volutoderma blakei4 sites
- Clisocolus dubius3 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi3 sites
- Cymbophora stantoni3 sites
- Cymbophora triangulata3 sites
- Euspira3 sites
- Legumen ooides3 sites
- Perissitys brevirostris3 sites
- Volutoderma elderi3 sites
- Anchura phaba2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Gyrodes (Sohlella) pacificus, 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
2 references- Gyrodiform gastropods from the Pacific coast Cretaceous and Paleocene8
- Checklist of Mesozoic macrofossil localities in the Santa Cruz Mountains and vicinity1
Each of the 9 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
Media content1
Picture of Gyrodes (Sohlella) pacificus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- J. Alderson
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gyrodes (Sohlella) pacificus 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 itGyrodes (Sohlella) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popenoe et al. 1987