Atorcula

No picture of Atorcula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Atorcula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtorculidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 6 of 32 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 32 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 26 of 32 occurrencesLate Triassic251–250 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 2 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 6 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 6 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 6 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 4 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248.6 Mya237 Mya251.3 Mya226.8 Mya

32 occurrences of Atorcula on record. 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

32 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

3 formations

Cassian — 46.63°N, 12.21°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.59°N, 12.26°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.16°EBac Thuy — 21.72°N, 106.67°EBac Thuy — 21.84°N, 106.73°ESan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°E

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The named rock units Atorcula 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.

Found in the same rock

687 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Atorcula, 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

12 references

Each of the 32 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 Atorcula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Atorcula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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. Nutzel 1998