Balanus (Balanus)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BalanusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Balanidae
- Life habit
- epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Balanidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Balanidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Balanus (Balanus) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene17%
- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene33%
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
3 formations
- San Diego Formation2
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group1
- Sooke Formation1
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The named rock units Balanus (Balanus) 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.
Balanus (Balanus) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Balanus (Balanus) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Argopecten ventricosus2 sites
- Asperiscala minuticosta2 sites
- Balanus (Hesperibalanus) proinus2 sites
- Callithaca tenerrima2 sites
- Cetolepas hertleini2 sites
- Crenella inflata2 sites
- Hiatella arctica2 sites
- Hirtoscala sawinae2 sites
- Hirtoscala tincta2 sites
- Opalia montereyensis2 sites
- Opalia spongiosa2 sites
- Opalia varicostata2 sites
- Romaleon antennarium2 sites
- Saccella taphria2 sites
- Scalina brunneopicta2 sites
- Semele (Semele) ashleyi2 sites
- Semele (Semele) rubropicta2 sites
- Tamiosoma gregaria2 sites
- Tivela (Pachydesma) stultorum2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) castrensis1 site
- Acirsa cerralvoensis1 site
- Adeona violacea1 site
- Agasoma acuminatum1 site
- Aligena (Aligena) diegoana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Balanus (Balanus), 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
5 references- Thoracic Cirripedia of the San Diego Formation, San Diego County, California2
- Marine paleoclimatology and paleoecology of a Pleistocene invertebrate fauna from Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska1
- Corals from the Chipola and Jackson Bluff Formations of Florida1
- Three late Cenozoic molluscan faunules from Baja California. with a note on diatomite from west of San Felipe1
- Fossil Cirripedia from the Upper Oligocene Sooke Formation fo Vancouver Island, B. C.1
Each of the 6 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 content2
Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- balanus sp. · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-8002
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No picture of Balanus (Balanus) 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 Balanus (Balanus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itBalanus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Da Costa 1778