Athleta

Athleta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.

Athleta

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AthletinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 760 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 193 of 760 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 503 of 760 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 25 of 760 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 36 of 760 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 760 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–64 Mya — about 37 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 49 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 54 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 36 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 28 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 23 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 23 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 23 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 47 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 47 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 50 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 153 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 89 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 34 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 8 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya74 Mya4 Mya

760 occurrences of Athleta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

760 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

129 formations

Cook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.52°N, 93.73°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WCook Mountain — 31.40°N, 93.71°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.22°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 31.19°N, 95.84°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 29.49°N, 97.58°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.02°N, 85.85°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 30.08°N, 97.50°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.00°N, 97.60°WKincaid — 31.32°N, 96.72°WKincaid — 32.98°N, 95.93°WKincaid — 31.30°N, 96.88°WKincaid — 30.10°N, 97.30°WKincaid — 29.88°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 29.38°N, 99.02°WKincaid — 33.13°N, 96.10°WKincaid — 31.52°N, 96.53°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 31.36°N, 96.04°WKincaid — 31.37°N, 96.69°WWills Point — 30.17°N, 97.46°WWills Point — 30.08°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 31.70°N, 96.40°WWills Point — 30.85°N, 96.97°WWills Point — 32.98°N, 95.93°WWills Point — 30.00°N, 97.60°WWills Point — 30.33°N, 97.37°WWills Point — 32.08°N, 96.47°WWills Point — 30.10°N, 97.30°WWills Point — 29.96°N, 97.45°WWills Point — 32.14°N, 96.09°WWills Point — 29.77°N, 97.68°WWills Point — 31.47°N, 96.67°WWills Point — 29.57°N, 97.90°WWills Point — 29.42°N, 98.57°WWills Point — 29.28°N, 98.61°WWills Point — 28.71°N, 100.50°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 31.03°N, 96.49°WWeches — 30.90°N, 96.39°WWeches — 31.56°N, 94.50°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 32.20°N, 87.76°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.57°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WPorters Creek — 32.37°N, 88.03°WPorters Creek — 31.94°N, 87.05°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.84°N, 88.25°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.63°N, 91.82°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 31.26°N, 93.82°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WMoodys Branch — 31.60°N, 92.80°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 31.85°N, 94.98°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 29.80°N, 97.65°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WReklaw — 31.86°N, 94.94°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.82°N, 87.37°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 32.08°N, 88.22°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.95°WTuscahoma — 31.81°N, 87.48°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WYazoo — 31.63°N, 91.82°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WYazoo — 31.14°N, 93.26°WYazoo — 35.01°N, 90.79°WYazoo — 32.40°N, 90.25°WCzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EIndio — 26.05°N, 99.18°WIndio — 26.43°N, 99.15°WIndio — 25.92°N, 99.40°WSeguin — 30.23°N, 97.42°WSeguin — 30.80°N, 96.95°WSeguin — 30.33°N, 97.37°WSeguin — 30.01°N, 96.87°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WLogansport — 31.57°N, 93.55°WOkinoshima — 32.72°N, 132.55°EOkinoshima — 32.87°N, 129.55°EGaj — 23.33°N, 68.85°EGaj — 23.25°N, 68.87°EGaj — 23.22°N, 68.75°EGaj — 23.35°N, 68.82°EGaj — 24.87°N, 67.05°EGaj — 24.98°N, 66.90°ECrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°W

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The named rock units Athleta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 105 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Athleta and its relatives

Eocene

Where Athleta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,648 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 400 sites for Athleta, and this reads 240 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

128 references

Each of the 760 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. 116 further references are not listed. 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 Athleta

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Athleta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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What may have been alongside itAthletinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1853)