Babylonia

Babylonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Babyloniidae.

Babylonia

Lilcrabbygal at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 23 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 47 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Babylonia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

47 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

22 formations

Nyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°EBaghmara — 25.17°N, 90.67°EBaghmara — 25.27°N, 90.23°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°EMera — 47.40°N, 23.85°EMera — 46.87°N, 23.38°EMera — 47.33°N, 23.45°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EHijikata Silt — 34.78°N, 138.00°EKisagata shell bed — 39.21°N, 139.91°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°ENishikurosawa — 39.70°N, 140.12°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°EFels — 48.51°N, 15.77°EToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°ESakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EAnanai — 33.43°N, 133.97°ETsurikake — 42.20°N, 139.53°EShimo — 35.51°N, 135.51°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°E

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The named rock units Babylonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Babylonia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Babylonia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Babylonia, 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

29 references

Each of the 47 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. 17 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 content2

Picture of Babylonia

Credit
Lilcrabbygal at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
laurashea
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBuccinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlüter 1838