Epitonium (Acrilla)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpitoniumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Epitonium
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 63 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
60 occurrences of Epitonium (Acrilla) on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
60 occurrences- Late Cretaceous2%
- Paleocene28%
- Eocene60%
- Miocene5%
- Pliocene2%
- Pleistocene3%
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
22 formations
- Lellinge Greensand Formation10
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group6
- Talara Formation5
- Danian Limestone Formation5
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group4
- Sables a Nummulites variolarius Formation2
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The named rock units Epitonium (Acrilla) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epitonium (Acrilla) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Epitonium (Acrilla) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,809 taxa- Xenophora15 sites
- Turricula14 sites
- Glycymeris13 sites
- Architectonica12 sites
- Cerithiopsis12 sites
- Odostomia12 sites
- Corbula11 sites
- Sassia11 sites
- Barbatia10 sites
- Cerithiella10 sites
- Crassatella10 sites
- Cylichna10 sites
- Galeodea10 sites
- Nucula10 sites
- Sveltella10 sites
- Turbonilla10 sites
- Venericardia9 sites
- Acrocoelum8 sites
- Acteon8 sites
- Bayania8 sites
- Eopleurotoma8 sites
- Gemmula8 sites
- Haustator8 sites
- Hipponix8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Epitonium (Acrilla), 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
26 references- The Selandian (Paleocene) mollusc fauna from Copenhagen, Denmark: the Poul Harder 1920 collection10
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Cyclophoridae à Stilifetidae7
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex6
- A catalogue of Danian gastropods from the Baunekule facies, Faxe Formation, Denmark5
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca5
- Taxonomy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeographical significance of the middle-late Eocene molluscs from the Garet Gehannem section in the Fayoum depression, Egypt2
- The molluscs of the “Falunière” of Grignon (Middle Lutetian, Yvelines, France): quantification of lithification bias and its impact on the biodiversity assessment of the Middle Eocene of Western Europe2
- Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part V Addenda et Corrigenda ad Prosobranchia2
- Molluscs from the Tilehurst Member (London Clay Formation, Early Eocene) at Crondall and Up Nately (Hampshire)2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda2
- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
Each of the 60 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 Epitonium (Acrilla) 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 Epitonium (Acrilla), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epitonium (Acrilla) 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1860)