Koilopleura sinuata
No picture of Koilopleura sinuata 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 Koilopleura sinuata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KoilopleuraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Thaisidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Thaisidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Thaisidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 870 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
2 occurrences of Koilopleura sinuata 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Koilopleura sinuata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Koilopleura sinuata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Koilopleura sinuata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Astraea (Pomaulax) biangulata1 site
- Astrodapsis whitneyi1 site
- Desmostylus hesperus1 site
- Forreria carisaensis1 site
- Lyropecten crassicardo1 site
- Nodipecten estrellanus1 site
- Pacipecten pabloensis1 site
- Trophon1 site
- Turritella carrisaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Koilopleura sinuata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The chronologic and geolographic range of desmostylians1
- Agasoma sinuatum from the Miocene of Cuyama Valley, California1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Koilopleura sinuata 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 Koilopleura sinuata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Koilopleura sinuata 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 itKoilopleura through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1866)