Atys

Atys is a genus of very small to medium-sized sea snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Haminoeidae.

Atys

Richard Parker · CC BY 2.0 · 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
HaminoeidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Haminoeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Haminoeidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Haminoeidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 106 occurrencesPaleocene — about 19 of 106 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 10 of 106 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 106 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 35 of 106 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 106 occurrencesPleistocene — about 20 of 106 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 7 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

106 occurrences of Atys on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

106 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

50 formations

Kincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCook Mountain — 31.85°N, 92.91°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.52°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCilanang — 6.73°S, 108.67°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ERed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WAbbas — 16.75°N, 41.73°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WImperial — 33.41°N, 116.06°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WForest Hill — 30.98°N, 88.73°WYonabaru — 26.16°N, 127.72°EOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WBohio — 9.17°N, 79.85°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WDampier Limestone — 25.53°S, 113.48°EAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°W

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The named rock units Atys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Atys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Atys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Atys, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

44 references

Each of the 106 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. 32 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 Atys

Credit
Richard Parker
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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not stated by the source
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Specimen
Cercocebus atys · rmca:vert:81.007-M-0041

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Montfort 1810