Colus precursor
No picture of Colus precursor 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 Colus precursor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ColusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Colus precursor 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Colus precursor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Colus precursor and its relatives
EoceneWhere Colus precursor and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) tessellata1 site
- Ameranella terrysmithae1 site
- Argobuccinum1 site
- Bonellitia (Bonellitia) smithwickensis1 site
- Conomitra vernoniana1 site
- Echinophoria dalli1 site
- Ennucula keaseyensis1 site
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni1 site
- Exilia bentsonae1 site
- Isocrinus nehalemensis1 site
- Moerella quasimacoma1 site
- Olequahia schencki1 site
- Pleuroliria oregonensis1 site
- Polinices (Euspira) clementensis1 site
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis1 site
- Procerapex bentsonae1 site
- Ptychosyrinx facula1 site
- Sveltella exiliplex1 site
- Trophonopsis platacantha1 site
- Turricula keaseyensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Colus precursor, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 Colus precursor 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 Colus precursor, 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itColus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hickman 1980