Faunus

Faunus

Spreesprotte · Copyrighted free use · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachychilidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Pachychilidae

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 74 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 74 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 63 of 74 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 74 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 74 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 74 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 74 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 14 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 14 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 8 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 9 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–9.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.9–6.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.9–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–836 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85.7 Mya5.333 Mya92 Mya836 ka

74 occurrences of Faunus 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

74 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

25 formations

Barton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WDegari — 30.08°N, 67.22°EMera — 46.82°N, 23.45°EMera — 46.87°N, 23.38°EMera — 47.05°N, 23.07°EGhazij — 30.16°N, 67.72°EGatuncillo — 9.36°N, 79.90°WGatuncillo — 9.20°N, 79.55°WCilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EShiratake — 32.42°N, 130.17°EMiike — 33.05°N, 130.48°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ECarbonera — 6.80°N, 73.58°WHangu — 33.53°N, 71.06°EVerdun — 4.74°S, 81.30°WChira — 5.20°S, 80.63°WMancora — 5.20°S, 80.63°WCone Hill — 4.70°S, 81.26°WKoyagi — 33.00°N, 129.50°EFutagojima — 32.68°N, 129.80°ECarnoas Shale — 4.26°S, 80.89°WKolosh — 37.22°N, 42.83°EKirkkavak — 39.97°N, 32.77°EOrizzonte di Ronca — 45.48°N, 11.28°ENanggulan — 7.48°S, 110.05°EAkasaki — 32.65°N, 130.50°EMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°E

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The named rock units Faunus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Faunus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Faunus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

971 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Faunus, 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

24 references

Each of the 74 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. 12 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 content3

Picture of Faunus

Credit
Spreesprotte
Licence
Copyrighted free use
Commercial use
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CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Careproctus faunus · UWFC:ADULT COLLECTION:UW 111867

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
noe-3d.at
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Montfort 1810