Dissochilus
Cossmann, Maurice · 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
- LittorinidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Littorinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Littorinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Littorinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
3 occurrences of Dissochilus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Dissochilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dissochilus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Dissochilus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
436 taxa- Acteocina2 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Alvania (Arsenia)2 sites
- Amaurellina2 sites
- Brachidontes2 sites
- Calyptraea2 sites
- Cerithiella2 sites
- Cerithiopsis2 sites
- Clava (Semivertagus)2 sites
- Columbellopsis2 sites
- Cominella2 sites
- Cylichna2 sites
- Emarginula2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Gegania2 sites
- Goniatogyra2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Mathilda2 sites
- Monodonta2 sites
- Neritoplica2 sites
- Odostomia2 sites
- Odostomia (Megastomia)2 sites
- Otostoma2 sites
- Patella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dissochilus, 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- Paleocene gastropods from Nûgssuaq, West Greenland1
- Revision des Gastropoda du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique. I, Les Gastropoda du Calcaire de Mons1
- Catalogue of Australian Tertiary Mollusca (except chitons)1
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 Dissochilus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Cossmann, Maurice
- 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLittorinidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1888