Sinum africanum
No picture of Sinum africanum 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 Sinum africanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Sinum
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Sinum
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Sinum
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Sinum africanum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group2
- Ameke Formation1
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The named rock units Sinum africanum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sinum africanum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sinum africanum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Callista elongatotrigona3 sites
- Callista kitsoni3 sites
- Cyrtulotibia unidigitata3 sites
- Protonoetia nigeriensis3 sites
- Turritella mauryana3 sites
- Africolithes africanus2 sites
- Africoterebellum elongatum2 sites
- Amekichilus suturocostatum2 sites
- Athleta lugardi2 sites
- Bonellitia evulsa2 sites
- Bulbifusus nigeriensis2 sites
- Cardita costaenodulosis2 sites
- Cominella douvillei2 sites
- Conospirus parisiensis2 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata2 sites
- Crepidula falconeri2 sites
- Eopleurotoma nigeriensis2 sites
- Eovolva nigeriensis2 sites
- Fossularca africana2 sites
- Glycymeris nigeriensis2 sites
- Hilda turriculata2 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera2 sites
- Janiopsis nigeriensis2 sites
- Loxocardium obliquum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sinum africanum, 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 referencesEach 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
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No picture of Sinum africanum 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 Sinum africanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sinum africanum 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 itSinum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newton 1922