Ficus carolina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FicusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ficidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ficidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ficidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Ficus carolina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Monte Leon Fm Formation2
- Chenque Formation2
- San Julian Formation1
- San Julián Formation1
- Guadal Formation1
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The named rock units Ficus carolina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ficus carolina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ficus carolina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- ? Tricosirius patagonica1 site
- Ameghinomya argentina1 site
- Ameghinomya darwini1 site
- Ameghinomya meridionalis1 site
- Antimelatoma1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca (Arca) patagonica1 site
- Ataxocerithium1 site
- Atrina magellanica1 site
- Aulacomya atra1 site
- Austroimbricaria1 site
- Austroimbricaria quemadensis1 site
- Austromitra1 site
- Borsonia1 site
- Calliostoma1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Calyptraea pileus1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Cardium pisum1 site
- Chione casa1 site
- Chione eupyga1 site
- Chione patagonica1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Chlamys (Swiftopecten) iheringii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ficus carolina, 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- Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis6
- Invertibrados fósiles marinos de la Formación Guadal (Oligoceno superio-Mioceno inferior) en Pampa, Castillo region, región de Aisén, Chile1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Ficus carolina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ficus carolina 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 itFicus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1847)