Epalxis (Epalxis) ventricosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Epalxis (Epalxis)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Epalxis (Epalxis) ventricosa 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Epalxis (Epalxis) ventricosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epalxis (Epalxis) ventricosa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Epalxis (Epalxis) ventricosa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
426 taxa- Sigmesalia fasciata3 sites
- Ampullaria sigaretina2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Batillaria2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Cerithium denticulatum2 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina2 sites
- Eopleurotoma bicatena2 sites
- Hydrobia (Tournoueria) conulus2 sites
- Periaulax spirata2 sites
- Rimella fissurella2 sites
- Sigmesalia sulcata2 sites
- Solarium plicatum2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Abra deshayesi1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Adeorbis1 site
- Admete evulsa parisiensis1 site
- Alveolina1 site
- Amaea1 site
- Amaea (Acrilla) affinis1 site
- Amaea (Acrilla) gallica1 site
- Amaurellina spirata1 site
- Amauropsina canaliculata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Epalxis (Epalxis) ventricosa, 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- Quelques Cones et Pleurotomes du Lutétien du Bassin de Paris1
- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques1
- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris1
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
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No picture of Epalxis (Epalxis) ventricosa 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 Epalxis (Epalxis) ventricosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epalxis (Epalxis) ventricosa was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
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What may have been alongside itEpalxis (Epalxis) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1804)