Aturia angustata

Aturia angustata

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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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 29 of 51 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 51 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya11.63 Mya38.4 Mya4.7 Mya

51 occurrences of Aturia angustata on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

51 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

14 formations

Lincoln 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°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WAstoria — 45.49°N, 123.92°WAstoria — 44.67°N, 124.06°WPysht — 48.19°N, 124.09°WPysht — 48.17°N, 123.94°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.52°WBlakeley — 47.57°N, 122.42°WEugene — 44.03°N, 123.10°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.04°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.18°WOlcese — 35.57°N, 118.92°WOlcese — 35.60°N, 119.00°WOlcese — 35.51°N, 118.86°WClallam — 48.26°N, 124.25°WClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WFerrotepec — 18.01°N, 102.39°WFerrotepec — 18.05°N, 102.36°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.07°N, 123.24°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.79°N, 123.00°WMarrowstone — 48.05°N, 122.69°WNarrow Cape — 56.50°N, 154.25°WYaquina — 44.60°N, 124.00°WQuimper — 48.03°N, 122.74°WTwin River — 48.17°N, 123.98°W

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The named rock units Aturia angustata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aturia angustata and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Aturia angustata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

308 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Aturia angustata, 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

15 references

Each of the 51 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Aturia angustata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Aturia angustata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1849)