Epitonium (Coniscala)
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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 most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Epitonium (Coniscala) 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
11 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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 Epitonium (Coniscala) 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.
Epitonium (Coniscala) and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Epitonium (Coniscala) and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
325 taxa- Gemmula8 sites
- Tornatellaea (Ravniella)8 sites
- Turricula8 sites
- Cerithiella7 sites
- Cerithiopsis7 sites
- Cylichna7 sites
- Exilia7 sites
- Gilbertina7 sites
- Lunatia7 sites
- Odostomia7 sites
- Siphonalia7 sites
- Suessonia7 sites
- Acrocoelum6 sites
- Cordieria6 sites
- Retusa6 sites
- Sveltella6 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa)5 sites
- Actaeon pusillus5 sites
- Admetula5 sites
- Alvania hauniensis5 sites
- Ancilla (Sparella)5 sites
- Aporrhais gracilis5 sites
- Architectonica5 sites
- Arcopsis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Epitonium (Coniscala), 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- The Selandian (Paleocene) mollusc fauna from Copenhagen, Denmark: the Poul Harder 1920 collection7
- Paleocene gastropods from Nûgssuaq, West Greenland3
- Fauna i stratygrafia paleocenu srodkowej Wisly1
Each of the 11 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 Epitonium (Coniscala) 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 (Coniscala), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epitonium (Coniscala) 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.
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What may have been alongside itEpitonium through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Boury 1887)