Fulgoraria oregonensis

Fulgoraria oregonensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FulgorariaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 3.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 9 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.83 Mya1.3 Mya

9 occurrences of Fulgoraria oregonensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

9 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

5 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WWildcat — 40.64°N, 124.31°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°W

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The named rock units Fulgoraria oregonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Fulgoraria oregonensis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Fulgoraria oregonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

226 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Fulgoraria oregonensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 9 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 Fulgoraria oregonensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Fulgoraria oregonensis 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 itFulgoraria through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1909)