Athleta (Volutospina) japonica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Athleta (Volutospina)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
3 occurrences of Athleta (Volutospina) japonica 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 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Okinoshima Formation2
- Kishima Formation · Kishima Group1
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The named rock units Athleta (Volutospina) japonica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Athleta (Volutospina) japonica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Athleta (Volutospina) japonica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Pitar2 sites
- ? Eopheurotoma aff. higoensis1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) nagaoi1 site
- Ancilla (Turrancilla)1 site
- Angulus1 site
- Antalis1 site
- Athleta (Volutospina) nishimurai1 site
- Callista1 site
- Calypteraea sp.1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Chlamys (Mimachlamys)1 site
- Clathrus1 site
- Cornusolea fudoujii1 site
- Crassatellites matsuraensis1 site
- Creseis kishimaensis1 site
- Cyclina compressa1 site
- Cyclocardia yoshidai1 site
- Decapoda1 site
- Eutrephoceras japonicus1 site
- Fulgoraria (Psephaea)1 site
- Fulvia1 site
- Gemmula1 site
- Gymnogobius oligocenicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Athleta (Volutospina) japonica, 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
3 references- An Early Oligocene fish-fauna from Japan reconstructed from otoliths1
- Paleogene and Early Neogene molluscan faunae in West Japan1
- An Eocene Nautiloid from Kyushu, Japan1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Athleta (Volutospina) japonica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Athleta (Volutospina) japonica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Athleta (Volutospina) japonica 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 itAthleta (Volutospina) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nagao 1928