Awateria retifera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AwateriaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Awateria retifera 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
14 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
3 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group10
- Weches Formation · Caliborne Group3
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Awateria retifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Awateria retifera and its relatives
EoceneWhere Awateria retifera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
446 taxa- Polinices11 sites
- Pyramidella11 sites
- Buccitriton texanum10 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni10 sites
- Ficus10 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)10 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus10 sites
- Latirus moorei10 sites
- Microdrillia10 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii10 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta10 sites
- Ancilla staminea9 sites
- Architectonica9 sites
- Athleta petrosa9 sites
- Bonellitia9 sites
- Cadulus9 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis9 sites
- Lyrosurcula9 sites
- Michela trabeatoides9 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis9 sites
- Scobinella9 sites
- Sinum9 sites
- Volvulella9 sites
- Acteon8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Awateria retifera, 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
4 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals10
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda2
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)1
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs1
Each of the 14 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 content0
No picture of Awateria retifera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Awateria retifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Awateria retifera was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itAwateria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1860