Abderospira leblanci

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AbderospiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Abderospira leblanci 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
4 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
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group3
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Abderospira leblanci has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Abderospira leblanci and its relatives
EoceneWhere Abderospira leblanci and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Acteon annectens2 sites
- Alveinus minutus2 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus2 sites
- Bittium koeneni2 sites
- Caestocorbula wailesiana2 sites
- Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus2 sites
- Corbula densata2 sites
- Dentalium (Antalis) danvillense2 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus2 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis2 sites
- Fusus pearlensis2 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata2 sites
- Kapalmerella arenicola2 sites
- Lirodiscus jacksonensis2 sites
- Melanella jacksonensis2 sites
- Mnestia meyeri2 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta2 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis2 sites
- Pitar securiformis2 sites
- Pleurofusia fluctuosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Abderospira leblanci, 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- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- The Mollusca of the Mississippi Embayment (Sabine River to the Alabama River). Pt. II. Univalves and index1
Each of the 4 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 Abderospira leblanci
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Abderospira leblanci 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 itAbderospira through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris and Palmer 1947