Heliacus

Heliacus is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Architectonicidae.

Heliacus

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArchitectonicidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Architectonicidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Architectonicidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Architectonicidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 33 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 33 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 33 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 33 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–8.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences72.2 Mya129 ka85 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Heliacus 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

33 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

20 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EDakhla — 25.50°N, 30.50°EDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.27°WDiscovery Point — 29.09°N, 118.25°WKurkur — 25.50°N, 29.42°ECoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WMaraldi Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°ENagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°ECercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WGlen Aire Clay — 38.83°S, 143.48°ESwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBaldissero — 45.02°N, 7.71°EAlexandria — 33.82°S, 25.65°E

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The named rock units Heliacus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliacus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Heliacus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

980 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Heliacus, 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

19 references

Each of the 33 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. 7 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 Heliacus

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heliacus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1842