Gyrodes

Searched as Gyrodes depressus. The Paleobiology Database treats Gyrodes as the accepted name.

Gyrodes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmpullospirinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 4.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94.4 Mya89.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Gyrodes on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

2 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

2 formations

Tres Hermanos — 34.44°N, 107.47°WStraight Cliffs — 37.17°N, 111.54°W

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

Gyrodes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,423 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 486 sites for Gyrodes, and this reads 240 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Gyrodes

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAmpullospirinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1860)