Aturia peruviana

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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 most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Aturia peruviana 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
16 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
9 formations
- Talara Formation2
- Santa Rita Formation2
- Saman Formation1
- Chira Formation1
- Mirador Formation · Chira Group1
- Ceru di Cueba Formation1
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The named rock units Aturia peruviana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aturia peruviana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aturia peruviana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
225 taxa- Turritella samanensis4 sites
- Architectonica3 sites
- Architectonica sullana3 sites
- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana3 sites
- Ectinochilus gaudichaudi3 sites
- Turritella chira3 sites
- Agaronia2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Barycypraea saltoensis2 sites
- Cerithium (Pseudoaluco) gabrielensis2 sites
- Conus sauridens chiraensis2 sites
- Dorsanum lagunitensis2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Mancorus grabaui2 sites
- Mytilus2 sites
- Nerita2 sites
- Peruluta mancorensis2 sites
- Spondylus olssoni2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
- Venericardia2 sites
- Xancus peruvianus2 sites
- Acharax belenensis1 site
- Acila1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Aturia peruviana, 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
8 references- Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas4
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene3
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca3
- Eocene Faunas from the Department of Bolivar, Colombia2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Eocene Mollusks from Curacao, West Indies1
- Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas: supplement1
- Beiträge zur Kenntnis tropisch-americkanischer Tertiärmollusken. VI. Some Tertiary nautiloids from Venezuela and Trinidad1
Each of the 16 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 Aturia peruviana
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- iDigBio
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aturia peruviana 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 itAturia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson 1928)