Chiton alveolus

Chiton alveolus Lovén, 1846, a relative of Chiton alveolus — not Chiton alveolus itself

Not Chiton alveolus. This is Chiton alveolus Lovén, 1846, a relative — both are Leptochitonidae.

S. Lovén · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChitonPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya27.3 Mya48.6 Mya22.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Chiton alveolus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 occurrences

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

Lincoln Creek — 47.28°N, 123.52°WHumptulips — 47.25°N, 123.82°WMakah — 48.32°N, 124.45°W

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The named rock units Chiton alveolus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Chiton alveolus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Chiton alveolus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chiton alveolus, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 Chiton alveolus Lovén, 1846

Source
GBIF
Credit
S. Lovén
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itChiton through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Loven 1846)