Pliciscala

Pliciscala

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EpitoniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 20 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 20 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence66 Mya3.6 Mya74 Mya1 Mya

20 occurrences of Pliciscala on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

20 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

14 formations

Byram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 31.97°N, 89.43°WBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°EBranden Clay — 57.27°N, 9.73°ERed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EVejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°EPakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EKemp Clay — 30.33°N, 97.46°WMoodys Branch — 31.66°N, 92.90°W

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

Pliciscala and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Pliciscala and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,814 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pliciscala, 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

12 references

Each of the 20 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. 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 Pliciscala

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Pliciscala 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 itEpitoniidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.