Bathytoma nonplicata
Bathytoma nonplicata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BathytomaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
12 occurrences of Bathytoma nonplicata 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
12 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
4 formations
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group7
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Lisbon Formation1
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Bathytoma nonplicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bathytoma nonplicata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bathytoma nonplicata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
426 taxa- Acteon10 sites
- Ficus10 sites
- Eosurcula moorei9 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)9 sites
- Microdrillia9 sites
- Mnestia9 sites
- Pitar9 sites
- Raphitoma9 sites
- Sinum9 sites
- Surculoma9 sites
- Venericardia (Venericor) densata9 sites
- Athleta petrosa8 sites
- Cadulus8 sites
- Chama8 sites
- Hastula8 sites
- Litorhadia8 sites
- Melanella8 sites
- Pyramidella8 sites
- Solariorbis8 sites
- Alveinus minutus7 sites
- Antillophos7 sites
- Clavilithes7 sites
- Cyclostremiscus7 sites
- Fusinus7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Bathytoma nonplicata, 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 hyperthermals6
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas4
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 12 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 Bathytoma nonplicata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bathytoma nonplicata 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBathytoma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.