Amaurellina spirata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmaurellinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Amaurellina spirata 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
3 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.
Amaurellina spirata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Amaurellina spirata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Ampullaria sigaretina3 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina3 sites
- Ampullaria canaliculata2 sites
- Ampullaria depressa2 sites
- Ampullaria patula2 sites
- Auricula ringens2 sites
- Auricula sulcata2 sites
- Bulla cylindrica2 sites
- Cerithium cristatum2 sites
- Cerithium interruptum2 sites
- Cerithium muricoides2 sites
- Cerithium subulatum2 sites
- Cerithium unisulcatum2 sites
- Chiton grignionensis2 sites
- Cyclostoma mumia2 sites
- Editharus polygonus2 sites
- Fusus excisus2 sites
- Fusus scalaroides2 sites
- Fusus subulatus2 sites
- Fusus uniplicatus2 sites
- Harpa mutica2 sites
- Haustator imbricataria2 sites
- Hydrobia (Tournoueria) conulus2 sites
- Murex frondosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Amaurellina spirata, 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
2 references- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris2
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Amaurellina spirata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAmaurellina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1804)