Atresius liratus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtresiusPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 89.8 Mya.
14 occurrences of Atresius liratus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
14 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
3 formations
- Redding Formation12
- Crack Canyon Formation · Great Valley Group1
- Lodoga Formation · Great Valley Group1
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The named rock units Atresius liratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Atresius liratus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Atresius liratus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Acteon politus10 sites
- Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana10 sites
- Tenea10 sites
- Biplica isoplicata9 sites
- Ostrea malleiformis9 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli7 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana7 sites
- Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana6 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida6 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia6 sites
- Calva (Calva) regina5 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica5 sites
- Gymnarus manubriatus5 sites
- Liocium punctatum5 sites
- Yezoites puerculus5 sites
- Actaeonella oviformis4 sites
- Ampullina pseudoalveata4 sites
- Carota mitraeformis4 sites
- Paosia californica4 sites
- Turritella hearni4 sites
- Turritella robusta4 sites
- Willimactra (Willimactra) putida4 sites
- Astandes salsa3 sites
- Latiala nodosa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Atresius liratus, 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- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California11
- Jurassic and Cretaceous Gastropods from Hydrocarbon Seeps in Forearc Basin and Accretionary Prism Settings, California2
- Type And Referred Specimens of Fossil Invertebrata in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Supplement 3: Mollusca Formerly Conserved at the University of California, Los Angeles1
Each of the 14 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 content1
Picture of Atresius liratus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Atresius liratus 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 itAtresius through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1869