Gadila

Gadila

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GadilinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Gadilida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Gadilida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gadilida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 91 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 91 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 25 of 91 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 91 occurrencesMiocene — about 43 of 91 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 91 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 91 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 13 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

91 occurrences of Gadila on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

91 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

31 formations

Cook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.61°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.69°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°EPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WNagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°EMidway — 25.70°N, 99.23°WIndio — 26.43°N, 99.15°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WSubibaja — 2.28°S, 80.43°WDilwyn — 38.72°S, 143.17°EMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WValiente — 9.21°N, 82.11°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°W

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The named rock units Gadila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gadila and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gadila and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,263 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Gadila, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

32 references

Each of the 91 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. 20 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 Gadila

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1847)