Seraphs subconvolutus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SeraphsPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Stromboidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya.
3 occurrences of Seraphs subconvolutus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Seraphs subconvolutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Seraphs subconvolutus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Seraphs subconvolutus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Cassis1 site
- Cornirostridae (Tomura)1 site
- Cypraeorbis gaasensis1 site
- Cypraeorbis vesicularis1 site
- Distorsio (Distorsio)1 site
- Eocithara1 site
- Monetaria moneta1 site
- Persististrombus radix1 site
- Praerosaria amoenacea1 site
- Praerosaria espibosensis1 site
- Praerosaria exflaveola1 site
- Praerosaria paulonaria1 site
- Praerosaria pseudorugosa1 site
- Praescissurella oligomiocaenica1 site
- Proadusta bitruncata1 site
- Proadusta camiadorum1 site
- Proadusta distorta1 site
- Proadusta elliptica1 site
- Proadusta gemmosa1 site
- Proadusta parvissima1 site
- Proadusta rostralina1 site
- Sassia (Sassia)1 site
- Scissurella1 site
- Skenea subauriculata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Seraphs subconvolutus, 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
2 references- Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific.2
- First systematic study using the variability of the residual colour patterns: the case of the Paleogene Seraphsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Stromboidea)1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Seraphs subconvolutus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Seraphs subconvolutus 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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What may have been alongside itSeraphs through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1852)