Aturia alabamensis

Aturia alabamensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AturiaPBDB
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 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.

Eocene — about 25 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesOligocene41–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya33.9 Mya41.5 Mya26.8 Mya

27 occurrences of Aturia alabamensis 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

27 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

10 formations

Moodys 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°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.89°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WOcala Limestone — 29.01°N, 82.68°WFayette — 26.23°N, 98.96°WSaman — 4.74°S, 81.30°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WHoko River — 48.38°N, 124.66°WOcala — 30.80°N, 85.26°W

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The named rock units Aturia alabamensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aturia alabamensis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Aturia alabamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

387 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Aturia alabamensis, 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

13 references

Each of the 27 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Aturia alabamensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1834)