Balcis

Balcis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 221 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 221 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 38 of 221 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 221 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 90 of 221 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 221 occurrencesPleistocene — about 69 of 221 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 20 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 33 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 20 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 13 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 11 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 72 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

221 occurrences of Balcis 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

221 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

48 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 31.49°N, 93.47°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.82°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.45°N, 118.80°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WOlcese — 35.47°N, 118.91°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WSakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EReinbek Stuffe — 51.77°N, 6.62°ELisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WArenas de Huelva — 37.32°N, 6.67°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.86°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°E

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The named rock units Balcis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balcis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Balcis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,763 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Balcis, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

60 references

Each of the 221 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. 48 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 content1

Picture of Balcis

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leach 1847)