Athleta (Volutospina)

Athleta (Volutospina)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AthletaPBDB
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 1 of 120 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 120 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 97 of 120 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 120 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 120 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 120 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 11 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 11 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 11 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 19 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 17 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 14 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya74 Mya4 Mya

120 occurrences of Athleta (Volutospina) 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

120 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

32 formations

Barton 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°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ESelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WIndio — 26.05°N, 99.18°WIndio — 26.43°N, 99.15°WIndio — 25.92°N, 99.40°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°ELaredo — 26.43°N, 99.15°WLaredo — 25.92°N, 99.18°WLaredo — 25.80°N, 99.17°WLaredo — 26.70°N, 99.23°WShekhan — 33.58°N, 71.83°EShekhan — 33.60°N, 71.90°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WDakhla — 25.50°N, 30.50°EHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WHeadon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WMidway — 26.30°N, 99.57°WMidway — 26.26°N, 99.52°WJackson — 25.80°N, 99.17°WJackson — 26.27°N, 98.82°WBaghmara — 25.17°N, 90.67°ESitsayan — 21.10°N, 94.80°ESitsayan — 20.17°N, 94.92°ENari — 26.36°N, 67.86°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°EChasra — 23.09°N, 69.05°EChasra — 23.42°N, 68.75°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°Eopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EKirimiya — 32.84°N, 130.04°EKawamagari — 32.42°N, 130.17°EShiratake — 32.42°N, 130.17°ESingu — 20.93°N, 94.85°E

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The named rock units Athleta (Volutospina) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Athleta (Volutospina) and its relatives

Eocene

Where Athleta (Volutospina) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,568 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Athleta (Volutospina), 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

32 references

Each of the 120 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. 20 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 (Volutospina)

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GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Newton 1906)