Balanus niveus
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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 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Balanus niveus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
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The named rock units Balanus niveus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Balanus niveus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Balanus niveus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Chelonibia testudinaria2 sites
- Agassizia porifera1 site
- Bothrocorbula wilcoxii1 site
- Chelonibia1 site
- Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum1 site
- Clypeaster1 site
- Columbella rusticoides1 site
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius1 site
- Echinometra lucunter1 site
- Encope aberrans1 site
- Encope michelini1 site
- Ilyanassa1 site
- Liochlamys1 site
- Lytechinus variegatus1 site
- Malea1 site
- Mellita quinquiesperforata1 site
- Monoplex krebsii1 site
- Morum (Morum) oniscus1 site
- Murexiella macgintyi1 site
- Nodipecten1 site
- Nucinella woodii1 site
- Oniscidia1 site
- Platylepas wilsoni1 site
- Pterynotus (Pterynotus)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Balanus niveus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Balanus niveus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 niveus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balanus niveus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBalanus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Darwin 1854