Bathytormus flexurus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Crassatella (Bathytormus)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
46 occurrences of Bathytormus flexurus 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
46 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
6 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group39
- Cockfield Formation2
- Tupelo Bay Formation2
- Yazoo Clay Formation1
- New Bern Formation1
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Bathytormus flexurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bathytormus flexurus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bathytormus flexurus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
352 taxa- Caestocorbula wailesiana31 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus30 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata30 sites
- Corbula densata28 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta27 sites
- Hipponix25 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis25 sites
- Alveinus minutus24 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata23 sites
- Spisula jacksonensis23 sites
- Callista annexa22 sites
- Tellinidae22 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus21 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata21 sites
- Gastropoda20 sites
- Actinopterygii19 sites
- Bivalvia19 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta19 sites
- Crassinella pygmaea19 sites
- Endopachys maclurii18 sites
- Pitar securiformis18 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis18 sites
- Pteria limula17 sites
- Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Bathytormus flexurus, 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
8 references- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi26
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region5
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda5
- Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap3
- Jackson Eocene mollusks3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
Each of the 46 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
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No picture of Bathytormus flexurus 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 Bathytormus flexurus, 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 itCrassatella (Bathytormus) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1854