Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni

Not Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni. This is Epitonium condoni Dall, 1909, a relative — both are Epitoniidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BoreoscalaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
27 occurrences of Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni 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
27 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
6 formations
- Keasey Formation8
- San Emigdio Formation · San Lorenzo Group6
- Quimper Formation4
- Eugene Formation3
- Tukwila Formation · Puget Group1
- Lincoln Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
295 taxa- Lamelliconcha clarki10 sites
- Procerapex bentsonae8 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana7 sites
- Anechinocardium weaveri6 sites
- Echinophoria dalli6 sites
- Moerella quasimacoma6 sites
- Natica (Natica) weaveri6 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis6 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) clementensis6 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis6 sites
- Pseudocardium packardi6 sites
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) tessellata5 sites
- Boreoscala5 sites
- Exilia bentsonae5 sites
- Mactromeris ramonensis5 sites
- Olequahia schencki5 sites
- Siphonalia (Kelletia) merriami5 sites
- Bonellitia (Bonellitia) smithwickensis4 sites
- Bruclarkia4 sites
- Conomitra vernoniana4 sites
- Dentalium4 sites
- Ennucula keaseyensis4 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) keaseyense4 sites
- Scaphander impunctatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni, 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
12 references- Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon7
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California3
- The Oligocene marine molluscan fauna of the Eugene Formation in Oregon3
- Gastropods of the Family Epitoniidae from Mesozoic and Cenozoic Rocks of the West Coast of North America, including One New Species by F. E. Turner and One by R. A. Bramkamp3
- The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California3
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington2
- A methane seep from the deep-marine, late Eocene Keasey Formation, Rock Creek, Columbia County, Oregon1
- Marine fauna of the middle Eocene Tukwila Formation, King County1
- A middle Tertiary cetacean from Oregon1
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
- The Gries Ranch Fauna (Oligocene) of Western Washington1
- Climate and its influence upon the Oligocene faunas of the Pacific Coast, with descriptions of some new species from the Molopophorus lincolnensis Zone1
Each of the 27 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 Epitonium condoni Dall, 1909
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- 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.
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What may have been alongside itBoreoscala through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1909)