Serpulorbis papulosus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SerpulorbisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Vermetidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Vermetidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Vermetidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 22 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11.63 Mya2.58 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Serpulorbis papulosus 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

39 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

15 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.25°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WRio Banano — 9.92°N, 83.07°WRio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.91°WBrasso — 10.48°N, 61.15°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMontezuma — 9.65°N, 85.07°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°W

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The named rock units Serpulorbis papulosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Serpulorbis papulosus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Serpulorbis papulosus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

917 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Serpulorbis papulosus, 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

15 references

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. 3 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

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No picture of Serpulorbis papulosus 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 Serpulorbis papulosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Serpulorbis papulosus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Guppy 1866)