Orthosurcula

Orthosurcula

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 164 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 93 of 164 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 164 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 164 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 164 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 164 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 13 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 18 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 36 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 18 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 10 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 5 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 10 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences11–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–6.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya74 Mya4 Mya

164 occurrences of Orthosurcula on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

164 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

35 formations

Porters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 32.20°N, 87.76°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.57°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WPorters Creek — 31.94°N, 87.05°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 29.77°N, 97.68°WKincaid — 31.36°N, 96.04°WKincaid — 31.37°N, 96.69°WLogansport — 31.57°N, 93.55°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°EWills Point — 30.17°N, 97.46°WWills Point — 30.08°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 28.71°N, 100.50°WWills Point — 32.13°N, 96.23°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.97°N, 87.86°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WSeguin — 30.23°N, 97.42°WSeguin — 30.80°N, 96.95°WSeguin — 30.33°N, 97.37°WSeguin — 30.18°N, 97.47°WSeguin — 30.26°N, 97.08°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 32.25°N, 87.77°WNanafalia — 31.65°N, 86.70°WNanafalia — 31.61°N, 85.05°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WClayton — 31.90°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.87°N, 85.43°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°WMidway — 26.10°N, 99.62°WMidway — 26.30°N, 99.57°WMidway — 26.26°N, 99.52°WFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°EPoerters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.42°WFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.75°WPendleton Ferry — 31.40°N, 93.71°WManantial — 11.54°N, 72.91°WManantial — 11.11°N, 72.68°WBranden Clay — 57.27°N, 9.73°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°EByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WByram — 32.33°N, 90.20°WRiver Bend — 35.11°N, 77.04°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°ELinz — 48.33°N, 14.34°E

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The named rock units Orthosurcula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthosurcula and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Orthosurcula and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,057 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Orthosurcula, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

36 references

Each of the 164 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. 24 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 Orthosurcula

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No 3D scan of Orthosurcula was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Casey 1904)