Ficus

Ficus is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ficidae, the fig shells.

Ficus

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
FicidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ficidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ficidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ficidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 358 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 1126 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 1126 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 1126 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1126 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 1126 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 1126 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1126 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1126 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1126 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 1126 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 93 of 1126 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 113 of 1126 occurrencesEocene — about 425 of 1126 occurrencesOligocene — about 77 of 1126 occurrencesMiocene — about 311 of 1126 occurrencesPliocene — about 56 of 1126 occurrencesPleistocene — about 42 of 1126 occurrences380–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–354 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences152–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences139–127 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences127–114 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences114–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–89 Mya — about 25 occurrences89–76 Mya — about 25 occurrences76–63 Mya — about 76 occurrences63–51 Mya — about 122 occurrences51–38 Mya — about 317 occurrences38–25 Mya — about 124 occurrences25–13 Mya — about 216 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 214 occurrences358.86 Mya11.7 ka380 Mya0 Mya

1,126 occurrences of Ficus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

1,126 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

283 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 31.40°N, 94.52°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 30.36°N, 96.82°WCook Mountain — 31.76°N, 92.96°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WCook Mountain — 30.02°N, 97.07°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 41.63°N, 107.55°WFort Union — 46.33°N, 108.45°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 45.18°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 44.77°N, 107.13°WFort Union — 44.90°N, 107.03°WFort Union — 46.17°N, 108.43°WFort Union — 43.47°N, 108.68°WFort Union — 42.75°N, 109.72°WFort Union — 46.57°N, 105.65°WFort Union — 46.88°N, 104.93°WFort Union — 46.80°N, 105.32°WFort Union — 45.15°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 44.25°N, 105.07°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 43.93°N, 108.65°WFort Union — 41.34°N, 109.21°WFort Union — 45.92°N, 101.55°WFort Union — 46.43°N, 105.24°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 108.87°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WRaton — 37.40°N, 104.65°WRaton — 36.90°N, 104.43°WRaton — 36.97°N, 104.30°WRaton — 37.62°N, 104.78°WRaton — 37.17°N, 104.50°WRaton — 37.33°N, 104.70°WRaton — 37.10°N, 107.05°WRaton — 37.68°N, 104.18°WRaton — 37.15°N, 104.62°WRaton — 37.00°N, 104.48°WRaton — 37.12°N, 104.52°WRaton — 37.13°N, 104.85°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 103.88°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 46.43°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.98°WHell Creek — 46.13°N, 103.79°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.35°N, 70.70°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.12°N, 87.67°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.93°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WBlack Creek — 33.88°N, 81.02°WBlack Creek — 33.53°N, 81.83°WBlack Creek — 34.30°N, 79.74°WBlack Creek — 34.30°N, 79.85°WAstoria — 44.73°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WAstoria — 44.65°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 56.10°N, 118.90°WDunvegan — 56.00°N, 120.00°WDunvegan — 59.00°N, 127.00°WDunvegan — 59.00°N, 118.27°WDunvegan — 55.71°N, 121.21°WDunvegan — 54.62°N, 118.47°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.93°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WFlournoy — 43.26°N, 123.03°WFlournoy — 43.46°N, 123.57°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WJuncal — 34.78°N, 119.15°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.72°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 109.00°WSepulcher — 40.00°N, 110.00°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.75°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.74°WMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.38°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WSantee Limestone — 32.97°N, 80.08°WItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.32°N, 138.85°EScripps — 32.88°N, 117.25°WScripps — 32.84°N, 117.22°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°WRoseburg — 43.31°N, 123.12°WRoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WRoseburg — 42.96°N, 123.83°WRoseburg — 43.27°N, 123.45°WRoseburg — 43.24°N, 123.42°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WEugene — 44.03°N, 123.10°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.68°S, 47.39°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°W

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The named rock units Ficus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 259 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 199 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ficus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ficus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 736 sites for Ficus, and this reads 240 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

291 references

Each of the 1,126 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. 279 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 Ficus

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ficus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Röding 1798