Cantharus occidentalis

Cantharus occidentalis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106.8 Mya89.3 Mya

11 occurrences of Cantharus occidentalis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

11 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

2 formations

Budden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.59°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WPanoche — 37.38°N, 121.32°W

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The named rock units Cantharus occidentalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cantharus occidentalis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cantharus occidentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cantharus occidentalis, 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

2 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Cantharus occidentalis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cantharus occidentalis 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.

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What may have been alongside itCantharus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1869)