Surculites

Surculites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 105 occurrencesPaleocene — about 18 of 105 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 83 of 105 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 105 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 105 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 9 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 9 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 9 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 10 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61.66 Mya13.82 Mya67 Mya11 Mya

105 occurrences of Surculites on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

105 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

40 formations

Weches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.35°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°EReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.23°WScripps — 32.88°N, 117.25°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 32.44°N, 96.24°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°WRoseburg — 43.31°N, 123.12°WRoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WRoseburg — 43.24°N, 123.42°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.93°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.94°N, 88.06°WManantial — 11.54°N, 72.91°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCrescent — 47.33°N, 123.60°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WLocatelli — 37.03°N, 122.05°W

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The named rock units Surculites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Surculites and its relatives

Eocene

Where Surculites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,119 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Surculites, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

38 references

Each of the 105 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. 26 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 Surculites

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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 itTurridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1865)