Clavatoma
Clavatoma is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
No picture of Clavatoma 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 Clavatoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudomelatomidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.7 Mya and 15.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Clavatoma on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Clavatoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clavatoma and its relatives
MioceneWhere Clavatoma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Amalda (Baryspira)1 site
- Anomia trigonopsis1 site
- Austrotoma1 site
- Baryspira robusta1 site
- Bassina1 site
- Bathytoma haasti1 site
- Comitas1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Dentalium solidum1 site
- Eumarcia1 site
- Friginatica1 site
- Globisinum1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Kuia1 site
- Lentipecten hochstetteri1 site
- Limopsis zitteli1 site
- Mactra1 site
- Maoricolpus1 site
- Maoricrypta1 site
- Maorivetia1 site
- Mesopeplum1 site
- Nassa socialis1 site
- Notocorbula humerosa1 site
- Pareora striolata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Clavatoma, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Clavatoma 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 Clavatoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Clavatoma 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Clavatoma”
- 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 itPseudomelatomidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Powell 1942