Hercoglossa

Hercoglossa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HercoglossidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 85 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 85 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 73 of 85 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 85 occurrencesEocene108–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 16 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 32 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 16 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence100.5 Mya41.03 Mya108 Mya36 Mya

85 occurrences of Hercoglossa on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

85 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

23 formations

Clayton — 30.71°N, 84.86°WClayton — 31.90°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.89°N, 84.80°WClayton — 32.21°N, 87.48°WClayton — 31.93°N, 86.68°WClayton — 31.95°N, 86.71°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.98°N, 87.22°WClayton — 32.11°N, 87.42°WClayton — 31.98°N, 86.97°WClayton — 32.28°N, 86.61°WClayton — 34.65°N, 92.43°WPorters Creek — 31.93°N, 87.02°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.13°WKincaid — 29.75°N, 97.87°WKincaid — 28.39°N, 100.26°WKincaid — 28.45°N, 100.25°WKincaid — 30.05°N, 97.61°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WRoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°WRoca — 39.00°S, 67.53°WRoca — 41.00°S, 69.25°WSoldado — 10.29°N, 61.46°WSoldado — 10.08°N, 61.35°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WLandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°EWills Point — 32.13°N, 96.23°WSanta Susana — 34.26°N, 118.72°WEl Fuerte — 41.08°S, 65.17°WEl Fuerte — 41.51°S, 65.01°WDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°EDakhla — 25.90°N, 28.60°EBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WSan Juan — 16.59°N, 92.89°WPauji — 10.65°N, 71.64°WBruderndorf — 48.47°N, 16.30°ETerebratula — 4.45°S, 81.28°WWeches — 31.35°N, 95.68°WAquia — 38.42°N, 77.26°WVine Hill — 37.97°N, 122.13°WBelogrodnya — 51.91°N, 47.08°ESyzran — 51.85°N, 46.99°ETalara — 4.46°S, 81.28°WSepultura — 29.53°N, 115.26°W

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The named rock units Hercoglossa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hercoglossa and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Hercoglossa and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

595 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Hercoglossa, 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

32 references

Each of the 85 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. 20 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 content2

Picture of Hercoglossa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1866)