Bathraspira
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MathildidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mathildidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Mathildidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Mathildidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
10 occurrences of Bathraspira on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
10 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- Blackdown Greensand Formation3
- Atherfield Clay Formation2
- Hiraiga Formation1
- Sandgate Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
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The named rock units Bathraspira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bathraspira and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Bathraspira and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
297 taxa- Cirsocerithium4 sites
- Gyrodes4 sites
- Panopea (Myopsis) plicata3 sites
- Parmicorbula striatula3 sites
- Perissoptera parkinsoni3 sites
- Perissoptera robinaldina3 sites
- Pinna robinaldina3 sites
- Pterotrigonia3 sites
- Senis wharburtoni3 sites
- Thetironia minor3 sites
- Tornatellaea3 sites
- Venilicardia3 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa)2 sites
- Amauropsis2 sites
- Anomia convexa2 sites
- Anomia laevigata2 sites
- Astarte2 sites
- Atherfieldastacus magnus2 sites
- Bathrotomaria atherfieldensis2 sites
- Callianassa2 sites
- Cerithiella2 sites
- Cerithiopsis2 sites
- Confusiscala2 sites
- Crenella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Bathraspira, 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
6 references- Predatory gastropods and their activities in the Blackdown Greensand (Albian) of England3
- The stratigraphy of the Atherfield Clay Formation (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) at the type and other localities in southern England2
- Gastropoden-Faunen aus der höheren Unterkreide Nordwestdeutschlands [Late Early Cretaceous gastropods of Northwest Germany]2
- Geology of the Petersfield district, Hampshire1
- Kase, 19841
- Paléontologie française - Terrains crétacés - Tome 2 : Les animaux mollusques et rayonnés1
Each of the 10 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 Bathraspira
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Bathraspira 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1906