Flabellum californicum
No picture of Flabellum californicum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Flabellum californicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlabellumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Flabellum
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Flabellum
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Flabellum
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Flabellidae
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Flabellum californicum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Flabellum californicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Flabellum californicum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Flabellum californicum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Barbatia2 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Erginus vaderensis2 sites
- Homalopoma2 sites
- Nayadina (Exputens) batequensis2 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Patelloida2 sites
- Spondylus carlosensis2 sites
- Terebratulina2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Aphrocallistes1 site
- Aporolepas1 site
- Balanophyllia variabilis1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Colwellia1 site
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni1 site
- Craniscus1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Dentimitra cretacea1 site
- Eratotrivia crescentensis1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Flabellum californicum, 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- Macropaleontology of the Eocene Crescent Formation in the Little River Area, Southern Olympic Peninsula, Washington2
- Pacific Coast Cretaceous and Tertiary corals1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Flabellum californicum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Flabellum californicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Flabellum californicum 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 itFlabellum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1900