Strepsidura ficus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StrepsiduraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
19 occurrences of Strepsidura ficus 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
19 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Strepsidura ficus 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.
Strepsidura ficus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Strepsidura ficus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
235 taxa- Schedocardia brewerii10 sites
- Amaurellina moragai9 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) hornii9 sites
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana9 sites
- Pitar uvasana9 sites
- Crassatella uvasana7 sites
- Ficopsis remondii7 sites
- Turritella uvasana7 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana6 sites
- Cyclinella elevata6 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana6 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii6 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei6 sites
- Spirocrypta pileum6 sites
- Turritella uvasana sargeanti6 sites
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi5 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi5 sites
- Caryocorbula hornii5 sites
- Conus hornii5 sites
- Dentalium stramineum5 sites
- Eocernina hannibali5 sites
- Ficopsis hornii5 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii5 sites
- Mactromeris merriami5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Strepsidura ficus, 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
9 references- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington6
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California3
- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California3
- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California2
- Paleoecology of a protected biotope from the Eocene Mission Valley Formation, San Diego County, California1
- Oligocene biostratigraphy of the Santa Barbara embayment, California: Part II: Mollusca from the Turritella variata zone1
- Fauna and stratigraphic relations of the Tejon Eocene at the type locality in Kern County, California1
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California1
- Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California1
Each of the 19 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
Media content1

Picture of Strepsidura ficus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Strepsidura ficus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStrepsidura through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)