Sycodes glabra
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SycodesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ficidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ficidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ficidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
5 occurrences of Sycodes glabra on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Chico Formation2
- Haslam Formation1
- Cedar District Formation · Nanaimo Group1
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The named rock units Sycodes glabra 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.
Sycodes glabra and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Sycodes glabra and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Acila (Truncacila) demessa3 sites
- Biplica obliqua3 sites
- Calva (Calva) varians3 sites
- Clisocolus dubius3 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii3 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii3 sites
- Gyrodes expansa3 sites
- Tessarolax distorta3 sites
- Amphidonte (Amphidonte) parasitica2 sites
- Anchura falciformis2 sites
- Astarte tuscana2 sites
- Atira ornatissima2 sites
- Baculites chicoensis2 sites
- Caryocorbula traskii2 sites
- Crassatella conradiana2 sites
- Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) truncata2 sites
- Inoceramus subundatus2 sites
- Martesia clausa2 sites
- Perissitys brevirostris2 sites
- Protocardia placerensis2 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana2 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) grahami1 site
- Acirsa nexilia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sycodes glabra, 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
4 references- Description of the Cretaceous fossils2
- An ornithomimosaur from the Campanian Cedar District Formation (Nanaimo Group) of Denman Island, British Columbia, Canada1
- Additions and refinements to Sycodes glabra (Shumard, 1858), a poorly known Late Cretaceous (Campanian) marine gastropod from the northeast Pacific: taxonomic and biostratigraphic implications1
- The Rocks of the Sierra Nevada1
Each of the 5 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 Sycodes glabra
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sycodes glabra 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 itSycodes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shumard 1858)