Glyptoactis paraguanensis

Glyptoactis paraguanensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlyptoactisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Glyptoactis
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Glyptoactis
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glyptoactis
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 36 of 37 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences23.04 Mya15.98 Mya34.4 Mya13.3 Mya

37 occurrences of Glyptoactis paraguanensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

37 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

4 formations

Castilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.96°N, 71.26°WJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 12.03°N, 71.30°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WJimol — 11.93°N, 71.42°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WRoblecito — 9.86°N, 66.91°W

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

Glyptoactis paraguanensis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Glyptoactis paraguanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Glyptoactis paraguanensis, 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

Each of the 37 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 Glyptoactis paraguanensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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What may have been alongside itGlyptoactis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hodson 1931)