Galeodea californica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GaleodeaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
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.
8 occurrences of Galeodea californica 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
8 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
3 formations
- Llajas Formation6
- Juncal Formation1
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group1
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The named rock units Galeodea californica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Galeodea californica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Galeodea californica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Eocernina hannibali7 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus6 sites
- Surculites mathewsonii6 sites
- Crassatella uvasana5 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki5 sites
- Trochocyathus striatus5 sites
- Turritella andersoni lawsoni5 sites
- Acutostrea idriaensis4 sites
- Dentalium stentor4 sites
- Lyrischapa lajollaensis4 sites
- Nayadina (Exputens) llajasensis4 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum4 sites
- Phalium (Semicassis) tuberculiformis4 sites
- Ranella domenginica4 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) novacularis4 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata3 sites
- Aturia myrlae3 sites
- Claibornites (Claibornites) diegoensis3 sites
- Clavilithes3 sites
- Cymatium (Septa) janetae3 sites
- Fusiturricula (Crenaturricula) crenatospira domenginica3 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata3 sites
- Rotularia (Rotularia) tejonense3 sites
- Turritella uvasana applinae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Galeodea californica, 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
4 references- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California5
- Revision of Eocene warm-water cassid gastropods from coastal southwestern North America: implications for paleobiogeographic distribution and faunal-turnover1
- Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California1
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Galeodea californica 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 Galeodea californica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Galeodea californica 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 itGaleodea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1942)