Dorsanum scalatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DorsanumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
10 occurrences of Dorsanum scalatum 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
10 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
4 formations
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Stone City Formation3
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Pendleton Formation · Wilcox Group1
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The named rock units Dorsanum scalatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dorsanum scalatum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dorsanum scalatum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
299 taxa- Polinices7 sites
- Pyramidella7 sites
- Architectonica6 sites
- Athleta petrosa6 sites
- Cochlespira6 sites
- Ficus6 sites
- Gegania antiquata6 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia) genitiva6 sites
- Latirus moorei6 sites
- Microdrillia6 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii6 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta6 sites
- Trigonostoma6 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Vokesula smithvillensis6 sites
- Buccitriton sagenum5 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni5 sites
- Dentalium minutistriatum5 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus5 sites
- Michela trabeatoides5 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata5 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis5 sites
- Pachecoa (Pachecoa)5 sites
- Retusa (Cylichnina)5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Dorsanum scalatum, 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
4 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals4
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda2
- Late Paleocene examples of residual coloration and embryonic features in juvenile marine mollusks from Northwest Louisiana1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Dorsanum scalatum 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 Dorsanum scalatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dorsanum scalatum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDorsanum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heilprin 1891