Aporolepas
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZeugmatolepadinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
13 occurrences of Aporolepas 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
13 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Aporolepas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aporolepas and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aporolepas and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Ostrea7 sites
- Dentalium4 sites
- Erginus vaderensis4 sites
- Hesperibalanus huddlestuni4 sites
- Kathpalmeria georgiana4 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum3 sites
- Rotularia (Rotularia) tejonense3 sites
- Spondylus carlosensis3 sites
- Terebratulina3 sites
- Venericardia3 sites
- Abdounia enniskilleni2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa2 sites
- Aphrocallistes2 sites
- Balanus2 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis2 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) dichotomus2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Caestocorbula wailesiana2 sites
- Carcharias2 sites
- Conus (Hemiconus) aegilops2 sites
- Corbula densata2 sites
- Craniscus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Aporolepas, 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
4 references- Barnacles of the Jacksonian (Upper Eocene) Griffins Landing Member, Dry Branch Formation in South Carolina and Georgia6
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region3
- New Species of Middle Eocene Gastropods from the Northern Doty Hills, Southwestern Washington2
- Macropaleontology of the Eocene Crescent Formation in the Little River Area, Southern Olympic Peninsula, Washington2
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 content0
No picture of Aporolepas 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 Aporolepas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aporolepas 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.
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What may have been alongside itZeugmatolepadinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Withers 1953