Surculites mathewsonii

Surculites mathewsonii

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPaleocene — about 7 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 21 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59.24 Mya48.07 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

28 occurrences of Surculites mathewsonii on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

28 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

11 formations

Llajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.23°WScripps — 32.88°N, 117.25°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.74°WDomengine — 36.20°N, 120.50°WManiobra — 33.60°N, 115.66°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WArdath — 32.84°N, 117.23°W

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The named rock units Surculites mathewsonii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Surculites mathewsonii and its relatives

Eocene

Where Surculites mathewsonii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

267 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Surculites mathewsonii, 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

11 references

Each of the 28 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

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Picture of Surculites mathewsonii

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Surculites mathewsonii 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. (Gabb 1864)