Aesopus gardnerae
No picture of Aesopus gardnerae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aesopus gardnerae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AesopusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Aesopus gardnerae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
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The named rock units Aesopus gardnerae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aesopus gardnerae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Aesopus gardnerae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
125 taxa- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Acteocina candei2 sites
- Aligena striata2 sites
- Anadara aequicostata2 sites
- Angulus agilis2 sites
- Anomia simplex2 sites
- Astarte2 sites
- Astarte concentrica2 sites
- Atilia2 sites
- Bornia triangula2 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus2 sites
- Busycon2 sites
- Caecum (Defolinia) flemingi2 sites
- Caecum imbricatum2 sites
- Carditamera arata2 sites
- Carolinapecten eboreus2 sites
- Caryocorbula2 sites
- Caryocorbula contracta2 sites
- Cavilinga trisulcata2 sites
- Crassinella2 sites
- Crassinella johnsoni2 sites
- Crassinella lunulata2 sites
- Crenella decussata2 sites
- Crepidula fornicata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Aesopus gardnerae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Aesopus gardnerae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aesopus gardnerae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aesopus gardnerae 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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What may have been alongside itAesopus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ward and Blackwelder 1987