Austrolithes incompositus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClavilithesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Austrolithes incompositus 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Glen Aire Clay Formation1
- Werillup Formation · Plantagenet Group1
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The named rock units Austrolithes incompositus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Austrolithes incompositus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Austrolithes incompositus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Apiotoma1 site
- Archierato pyrulata1 site
- Asperdaphne1 site
- Ataxocerithium biaulax1 site
- Ataxocerithium multicostulatum1 site
- Ataxocerithium otopleuroides1 site
- Ataxocerithium venustulum1 site
- Attiliosa arenaria1 site
- Belloliva canaliculata1 site
- Cerithiella1 site
- Cerithiella limula1 site
- Cerithiidae1 site
- Cerithioderma tabulata1 site
- Cerithiopsidae1 site
- Cerithiopsis1 site
- Cerithiopsis pustuloclathrata1 site
- Cirsotrema pleiophylla1 site
- Clavocerithium kendricki1 site
- Comitas1 site
- Comitas (Carinocomitas) aldingensis1 site
- Comitas silicicola1 site
- Conomitra strombodiformis1 site
- Conorbis notialis1 site
- Conus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Austrolithes incompositus, 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
2 references- Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia1
- Molluscan biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Tertiary of southeastern Australia1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Austrolithes incompositus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Austrolithes incompositus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itClavilithes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tate 1888)