Aturia

Aturia is an extinct genus of Paleocene to Miocene nautilids within Aturiidae, a monotypic family, established by Campman in 1857 for Aturia Bronn, 1838, and is included in the superfamily Nautilaceae in Kümmel 1964.

Aturia

Bramfab · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AturiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 7.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 407 occurrencesPaleocene — about 9 of 407 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 171 of 407 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 61 of 407 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 166 of 407 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 407 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 15 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 16 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 16 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 22 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 27 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 27 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 23 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 9 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 10 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 15 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 15 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 30 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 37 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 36 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 23 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 12 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences61.66 Mya7.2 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

407 occurrences of Aturia 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

407 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

151 formations

Pietra Leccese — 40.03°N, 18.41°EPietra Leccese — 40.10°N, 18.50°EPietra Leccese — 39.93°N, 18.39°EPietra Leccese — 39.83°N, 18.38°EPietra Leccese — 40.15°N, 18.30°EPietra Leccese — 40.37°N, 18.16°EMerlinleigh Sandstone — 24.32°S, 115.17°EMerlinleigh Sandstone — 23.57°S, 114.99°ELincoln Creek — 46.80°N, 123.10°WLincoln Creek — 46.59°N, 123.61°WLincoln Creek — 46.28°N, 123.80°WLincoln Creek — 46.80°N, 123.15°WLincoln Creek — 46.94°N, 123.31°WLincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WLincoln Creek — 47.28°N, 123.52°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WAstoria — 45.49°N, 123.92°WAstoria — 44.67°N, 124.06°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.73°N, 90.46°WYazoo — 31.90°N, 88.46°WYazoo — 31.92°N, 88.44°WYazoo — 31.76°N, 88.40°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WTortachilla Limestone — 35.13°S, 138.47°ETortachilla Limestone — 34.88°S, 138.66°ETortachilla Limestone — 34.30°S, 138.01°ETortachilla Limestone — 35.23°S, 138.47°EPort Campbell Limestone — 37.74°S, 141.94°ELondon Clay — 51.54°N, 0.16°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°ELondon Clay — 51.58°N, 0.15°WPysht — 48.19°N, 124.09°WPysht — 48.17°N, 123.94°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WPakhna — 34.76°N, 32.92°EPakhna — 34.78°N, 32.80°EPakhna — 34.78°N, 32.99°EWeches — 31.30°N, 96.04°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.11°WWeches — 31.50°N, 94.36°WRanquil — 37.45°S, 73.60°WRanquil — 37.20°S, 73.49°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.52°WBlakeley — 47.57°N, 122.42°WKeasey — 45.88°N, 123.31°WKeasey — 45.98°N, 123.28°WKeasey — 46.58°N, 123.61°WMarrowstone — 48.05°N, 122.69°WTupelo Bay — 33.25°N, 80.45°WTupelo Bay — 33.47°N, 80.49°WTupelo Bay — 33.21°N, 80.45°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.89°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WEugene — 44.03°N, 123.10°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.04°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.18°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.97°S, 176.59°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.82°S, 176.50°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.67°S, 176.53°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°W

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The named rock units Aturia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 127 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 98 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aturia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Aturia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,987 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 367 sites for Aturia, and this reads 240 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

147 references

Each of the 407 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. 135 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 content2

Picture of Aturia

Credit
Bramfab
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAturiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1838