Aporrhais speciosa

Aporrhais speciosa

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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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 22 of 24 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya27.3 Mya48.6 Mya22.5 Mya

24 occurrences of Aporrhais speciosa on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

24 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

9 formations

Falun de Jeurs — 48.47°N, 2.17°EFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.43°N, 2.15°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.50°N, 2.25°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WSilberberg — 51.81°N, 11.82°EBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°E

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The named rock units Aporrhais speciosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aporrhais speciosa and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Aporrhais speciosa and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

611 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Aporrhais speciosa, 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

Each of the 24 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 Aporrhais speciosa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Aporrhais speciosa 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 itAporrhais through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlotheim 1820)