Cadulus (Platyschides)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CadulusPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Gadilida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Gadilida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gadilida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 56 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 56 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 56 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 56 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 33 of 56 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 56 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 56 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–9.9 Mya — about 13 occurrences9.9–6.9 Mya — about 19 occurrences3.9–836 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences85.7 Mya3.6 Mya92 Mya836 ka

56 occurrences of Cadulus (Platyschides) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

56 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

7 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.97°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°WQuimper — 48.03°N, 122.76°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°W

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The named rock units Cadulus (Platyschides) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cadulus (Platyschides) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cadulus (Platyschides) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,287 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Cadulus (Platyschides), 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

8 references

Each of the 56 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

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No picture of Cadulus (Platyschides) 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 Cadulus (Platyschides), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cadulus (Platyschides) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Henderson 1920