Aeneator
Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs belonging to the whelk family Tudiclidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TudiclidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.
15 occurrences of Aeneator on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
15 occurrences- Eocene60%
- Oligocene7%
- Miocene7%
- Pleistocene27%
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
- La Meseta Formation8
- Estratos de Caldera Formation3
- Naseby Greensand Formation · Stranraer Group1
- Submeseta Formation1
- Waiomio Formation1
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The named rock units Aeneator 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.
Aeneator and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aeneator and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Austrobuccinum tuberosum7 sites
- Polinices (Polinices) subtenuis7 sites
- Austroficopsis seymourensis6 sites
- Austrotoma oliveroi6 sites
- Saxolucina sharmani5 sites
- Antarctodarwinella ellioti4 sites
- Antarctodarwinella nordenskjoldi4 sites
- Colposigma euthenia4 sites
- Cucullaea raea4 sites
- Nucula (Leionucula) nova4 sites
- Struthioptera camachoi4 sites
- Sudonassarius antarctohimaleos4 sites
- Zelandiella verrucosa4 sites
- Austrosullivania lata3 sites
- Concholepas concholepas3 sites
- Cyclorismina marwicki3 sites
- Eoscaphella fordycei3 sites
- Incatella cingulata3 sites
- Lahillia wilckensi3 sites
- Mitra (Eumitra) sadleri3 sites
- Modiolus thomsoni3 sites
- Pseudofax weddellensis3 sites
- Agatha scotti2 sites
- Ameghinomya antiqua2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Aeneator, 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
6 references- Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy9
- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0002
- Cartas Castilla y Totoral Bajo, Región de Atacama. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0001
- The Mid Pleistocene Waiomio Shellbed (Castlecliffian, ca. 550-600 ky), Wanganui Basin, New Zealand1
- Nautiloids of the genus Aturia from the uppermost Miocene of Australia and New Zealand1
- The Geology of the Naseby Subdivision, Central Otago1
Each of the 15 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 Aeneator
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- GrahamBould
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aeneator 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTudiclidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay 1926