Gymnarus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PugnellinaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
39 occurrences of Gymnarus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
39 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
7 formations
- Redding Formation · Pacheco Group29
- Ladd Formation4
- Mungo River Formation2
- Tres Hermanos Formation1
- Logbadjeck Formation1
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group1
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The named rock units Gymnarus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gymnarus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gymnarus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Ostrea malleiformis20 sites
- Actaeonella oviformis19 sites
- Carota mitraeformis17 sites
- Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana17 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli16 sites
- Biplica isoplicata15 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida15 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica15 sites
- Willimactra (Willimactra) putida15 sites
- Calva (Calva) regina14 sites
- Ampullina pseudoalveata12 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana11 sites
- Turritella robusta11 sites
- Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana9 sites
- Liocium punctatum9 sites
- Turritella hearni9 sites
- Acteonella frazierensis8 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia8 sites
- Acteon politus6 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus)6 sites
- Nerita salsa6 sites
- Subprionocyclus neptuni6 sites
- Tenea6 sites
- Tragodesmoceras ashlandicum6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Gymnarus, 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
10 references- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California26
- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California4
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast2
- Nouvelles données sur les Mollusques et autres macro-organismes campaniens de Sikoum (Centre-Est du sous bassin de Douala-Cameroun): intérêts bio-chronologiques et paléo-écologiques1
- Stratigraphy and revision of nomenclature of upper Cenomanian to Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks of west-central New Mexico1
- Cretaceous Aporrhaidae from California: Aporrhainae and Arrhoginae1
- Described or figured West Coast species of Cymbophora1
- The stratigraphy of the southern Cameroons1
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
- Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna1
Each of the 39 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 Gymnarus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gymnarus 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 itPugnellinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1869)