Megabalanus

Megabalanus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
MegabalaninaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Balanidae
Life habit
epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Balanidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Balanidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 34 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 18 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–785 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence785 ka–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Megabalanus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

34 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

9 formations

Pico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WMulege — 27.05°N, 111.97°WYsidro — 28.92°N, 113.95°WIsidro — 26.97°N, 113.18°WTaime — 4.32°S, 81.25°WPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°W

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The named rock units Megabalanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megabalanus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Megabalanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,408 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Megabalanus, 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

21 references

Each of the 34 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. 9 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 Megabalanus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Megabalanus was found in Sketchfab.

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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What may have been alongside itMegabalaninae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hoek 1913)