Aporrhais (Aporrhais)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AporrhaisPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 51 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 51 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesMiocene — about 47 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 51 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 12 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 16 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61.66 Mya3.6 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

51 occurrences of Aporrhais (Aporrhais) on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

51 occurrences

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

6 formations

Breda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°EKangilia — 70.33°N, 53.08°WReinbek Stuffe — 51.77°N, 6.62°E

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The named rock units Aporrhais (Aporrhais) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aporrhais (Aporrhais) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Aporrhais (Aporrhais) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

601 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Aporrhais (Aporrhais), and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

Each of the 51 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 content2

Picture of Aporrhais (Aporrhais)

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itAporrhais through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. da Costa 1778