Fulgoraria

Fulgoraria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.

Fulgoraria

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
FulgorariinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 96 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 96 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 96 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 96 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 36 of 96 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 96 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 96 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 96 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–38 Mya — about 6 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 9 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 14 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 16 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences113.2 Mya2.58 Mya128 Mya0 Mya

96 occurrences of Fulgoraria on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

96 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

39 formations

Blakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBlakeley — 47.55°N, 122.34°WRateginskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°ELincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WLincoln Creek — 46.28°N, 123.80°WLincoln Creek — 47.29°N, 123.48°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WPysht — 48.16°N, 123.87°WMakah — 48.32°N, 124.46°WMakah — 48.32°N, 124.45°WNarrow Cape — 56.54°N, 154.34°WNarrrow Cape Formaton — 56.54°N, 154.34°WAstoria — 44.73°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WUkari — 34.80°N, 137.90°EUkari — 34.77°N, 138.00°ESanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.72°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.77°WSanta Susana — 34.08°N, 118.55°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WSnatolskaya — 58.50°N, 159.00°EKovachinskaya — 58.50°N, 159.00°EClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WShimajiri — 26.12°N, 127.72°EShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.78°EHijikata — 34.77°N, 138.02°ETomioka — 42.77°N, 143.02°EPoul Creek — 60.07°N, 142.27°WPoul Creek — 60.01°N, 141.90°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WYonabaru — 26.21°N, 127.74°EAluginskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EOkhonchevayamskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EUspenskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°E

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The named rock units Fulgoraria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fulgoraria and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Fulgoraria and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,240 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Fulgoraria, 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

35 references

Each of the 96 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. 23 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 Fulgoraria

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fulgoraria 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 itFulgorariinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schumacher 1817