Tudiclana

Tudiclana

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 86.1 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 7 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 13 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesEocene87–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 5 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83.6 Mya41.03 Mya87 Mya37 Mya

13 occurrences of Tudiclana 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

13 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

5 formations

Okarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EWangaloa — 46.20°S, 169.92°EWangaloa — 46.18°S, 170.00°ELa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WKauru — 45.05°S, 170.77°EAbbotsford — 45.56°S, 170.58°E

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

Tudiclana and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tudiclana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Tudiclana, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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 Tudiclana

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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 itTudiclidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay and Marwick 1937