Shikamacirrus
No picture of Shikamacirrus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Shikamacirrus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CirridaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Shikamacirrus on record, most of them in the Early 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
4 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Shikamacirrus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Shikamacirrus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Shikamacirrus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Discotectus2 sites
- Praecaprotina2 sites
- Trochopsidea2 sites
- Acteon1 site
- Afrollonia1 site
- Amphidonte1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Astarte (Leckhamptonia)1 site
- Ataphrus1 site
- Bakevellia1 site
- Conotomaria1 site
- Eodouvilleiceras1 site
- Eriptycha1 site
- Nagaoella1 site
- Nipponitrigonia kikuchiana1 site
- Nododelphinula1 site
- Otostoma1 site
- Prototurbo1 site
- Pterotrigonia1 site
- Pyrazus1 site
- Spondylus1 site
- Trajanella1 site
- Valdedolsella akushaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Shikamacirrus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Shikamacirrus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Shikamacirrus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shikamacirrus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCirridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kase 1984