Athleta symmetricus
No picture of Athleta symmetricus 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 symmetricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
29 occurrences of Athleta symmetricus 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
29 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group18
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group5
- Yazoo Clay Formation · Jackson Group5
- White Bluff Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Athleta symmetricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Athleta symmetricus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Athleta symmetricus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
249 taxa- Caestocorbula wailesiana6 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta6 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis5 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis5 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus4 sites
- Bittium koeneni4 sites
- Capulus americanus4 sites
- Corbula densata4 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus4 sites
- Endopachys maclurii4 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata4 sites
- Hipponix4 sites
- Natica permunda4 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis4 sites
- Tritonatractus pearlensis4 sites
- Architectonica bellastriata3 sites
- Balanophyllia irrorata3 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus3 sites
- Caricella polita3 sites
- Chlamys nupera3 sites
- Clavilithes3 sites
- Conus sauridens3 sites
- Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense3 sites
- Dolicholatirus leaensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Athleta symmetricus, 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- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area23
- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 29 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 symmetricus 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 symmetricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Athleta symmetricus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAthleta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1854