Falsifusus

Falsifusus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 109 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 34 of 109 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 71 of 109 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 109 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 109 occurrencesMiocene85–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 8 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 15 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 7 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 6 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 6 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 14 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 30 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72.2 Mya13.82 Mya85 Mya10 Mya

109 occurrences of Falsifusus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

109 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

24 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.38°WCook Mountain — 31.27°N, 95.61°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.65°WCook Mountain — 31.76°N, 92.96°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.32°N, 97.43°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 31.37°N, 96.69°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.63°N, 96.54°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WLaredo — 25.92°N, 99.18°WLaredo — 25.80°N, 99.17°WLaredo — 26.70°N, 99.23°WWills Point — 30.17°N, 97.46°WWills Point — 28.71°N, 100.50°WCapay — 39.21°N, 121.78°WCapay — 38.77°N, 122.20°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.94°N, 88.06°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.81°N, 87.48°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 31.40°N, 93.70°WShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°WLogansport — 31.57°N, 93.55°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WCrescent — 47.73°N, 122.85°WAvenal — 35.88°N, 120.10°WLodo — 36.36°N, 120.44°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WYegua — 30.24°N, 96.98°WPoerters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.42°WWautubbee — 32.34°N, 89.14°W

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

Falsifusus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Falsifusus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,373 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Falsifusus, 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

17 references

Each of the 109 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. 5 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 Falsifusus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Falsifusus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.