Priscoficus

Priscoficus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FicidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ficidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ficidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ficidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 7 of 115 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 50 of 115 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 56 of 115 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 115 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 115 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 115 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 18 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 19 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 8 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 8 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 7 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 11 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72.2 Mya11.63 Mya85 Mya4 Mya

115 occurrences of Priscoficus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

115 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

35 formations

Tuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.83°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 46.41°N, 122.98°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.08°N, 1.17°WLondon Clay — 51.23°N, 0.85°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.42°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WMartinez — 38.06°N, 122.24°WMartinez — 38.21°N, 122.02°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.94°N, 88.06°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.97°N, 87.86°WMoreno — 37.27°N, 121.17°WMoreno — 37.23°N, 121.12°WMidway — 25.70°N, 99.23°WIndio — 26.05°N, 99.18°WIndio — 26.43°N, 99.15°WIndio — 25.92°N, 99.40°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WAquia — 38.35°N, 77.30°WTapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.88°S, 170.77°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 45.01°S, 170.71°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.96°S, 170.65°ECoaledo — 43.34°N, 124.38°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WLogansport — 31.57°N, 93.55°WKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°EKauru — 45.15°S, 170.76°EClayton — 31.92°N, 87.08°WClayton — 34.65°N, 92.43°WManantial — 11.54°N, 72.91°WManantial — 11.11°N, 72.68°WRoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WFlournoy — 43.26°N, 123.03°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.72°EBroken River — 44.52°S, 170.93°EWangaloa — 46.30°S, 168.52°E

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The named rock units Priscoficus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Priscoficus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Priscoficus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,447 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Priscoficus, 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

39 references

Each of the 115 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. 27 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 Priscoficus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itFicidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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