Ficus

Searched as Ficus carbasea carbasea. The Paleobiology Database treats Ficus as the accepted name.

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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 11 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya20.9 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Ficus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

13 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

6 formations

Cantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WChagres Sandstone — 9.15°N, 80.05°WChagres Sandstone — 8.85°N, 81.70°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMontezuma — 9.65°N, 85.07°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.

Ficus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ficus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

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

4 references

Each of the 13 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 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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What may have been alongside itFicidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798