Gisortia brevis

Gisortia brevis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GisortiaPBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 10 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59.24 Mya48.07 Mya66.5 Mya40.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Gisortia brevis 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

10 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

3 formations

Ewekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EKalambaina — 14.83°N, 5.65°ETeberemt — 16.45°N, 2.25°E

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The named rock units Gisortia brevis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gisortia brevis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Gisortia brevis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

246 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Gisortia brevis, 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

2 references

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Gisortia brevis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gisortia brevis 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 itGisortia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douvillé 1920)