Saturnus dubius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaturnusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
- 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.
7 occurrences of Saturnus dubius on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
7 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Saturnus dubius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saturnus dubius and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Saturnus dubius and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Clisocolus corrugatus4 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica4 sites
- Syncyclonema operculiformis4 sites
- Tenea inflata4 sites
- Callistalox arata3 sites
- Calva (Calva) regina3 sites
- Crassatella gamma3 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida3 sites
- Inoperna bellarugosa3 sites
- Isocardia delta3 sites
- Lima (Acesta) beta3 sites
- Limopsis silveradoensis3 sites
- Pinna calamitoides3 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia3 sites
- Subprionocyclus neptuni3 sites
- Ampullina pseudoalveata2 sites
- Anchura (Helicaulax) tricosa2 sites
- Dentalium (Entalis) whiteavesi2 sites
- Eriphyla lapidis2 sites
- Excorbula coqua2 sites
- Gymnarus manubriatus2 sites
- Latiala nodosa2 sites
- Sciponoceras bohemicum2 sites
- Subprionocyclus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Saturnus dubius, 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
2 references- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California4
- Late Cretaceous paleoecology of the Holz Shale, Orange County, California3
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Saturnus dubius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Saturnus dubius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itSaturnus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Packard 1922)