Austrotoma oliveroi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AustrotomaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
25 occurrences of Austrotoma oliveroi 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
25 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Austrotoma oliveroi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Austrotoma oliveroi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Austrotoma oliveroi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
141 taxa- Polinices (Polinices) subtenuis20 sites
- Saxolucina sharmani16 sites
- Austrobuccinum tuberosum15 sites
- Colposigma euthenia15 sites
- Austroficopsis seymourensis13 sites
- Cucullaea raea13 sites
- Struthioptera camachoi13 sites
- Antarctodarwinella nordenskjoldi12 sites
- Lahillia wilckensi12 sites
- Sudonassarius antarctohimaleos12 sites
- Eucrassatella wilckensi11 sites
- Eurhomalea newtoni10 sites
- Eurhomalea antarctica9 sites
- Nucula (Leionucula) nova9 sites
- Zelandiella verrucosa9 sites
- Austroficopsis wimani8 sites
- Austrosullivania lata8 sites
- Cyclorismina marwicki8 sites
- Scaphander (Kaitoa) duseni8 sites
- Sigapatella disapicula8 sites
- Antarctodarwinella ellioti7 sites
- Australoneilo rossi7 sites
- Penion australocapax7 sites
- Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) aersispira7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Austrotoma oliveroi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 25 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
Media content1

Picture of Austrotoma oliveroi
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No 3D scan of Austrotoma oliveroi was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itAustrotoma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992