Fulgerca
No picture of Fulgerca was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Fulgerca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MuricoideaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
34 occurrences of Fulgerca on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
34 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
11 formations
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group9
- Providence Formation8
- Corsicana Marl Formation5
- Severn Formation2
- Escondido Formation2
- Coffee Sand Formation · Selma Group2
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The named rock units Fulgerca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fulgerca and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Fulgerca and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
852 taxa- Euspira rectilabrum23 sites
- Nuculana23 sites
- Cymbophora22 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria21 sites
- Striarca20 sites
- Turritella trilira20 sites
- Anomia argentaria18 sites
- Creonella triplicata17 sites
- Cylichna17 sites
- Cyprimeria17 sites
- Syncyclonema17 sites
- Cadulus16 sites
- Corbula16 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta16 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani16 sites
- Turritella bilira16 sites
- Acteon15 sites
- Creonella subangulata15 sites
- Dentalium leve15 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis15 sites
- Nucula percrassa15 sites
- Vertebrata15 sites
- Corbula monmouthensis14 sites
- Linearis14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Fulgerca, 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
10 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain8
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain7
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations7
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf4
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- Changes in Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary benthic marine assemblages: analyses from the North American coastal plain shallow-shelf1
- Sedimentology and extinction patterns across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval in East Texas1
- Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi1
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 34 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 Fulgerca was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Fulgerca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fulgerca 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMuricoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1941