Epitonium (Epitonium)
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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 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 774 ka.
36 occurrences of Epitonium (Epitonium) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
36 occurrences- Eocene17%
- Miocene36%
- Pliocene44%
- 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
13 formations
- Morne l'Enfer Formation6
- Mare Formation6
- Entrerriense Formation5
- Castle Hayne Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Springvale Formation3
- La Meseta Formation3
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The named rock units Epitonium (Epitonium) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Epitonium (Epitonium) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Epitonium (Epitonium) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
396 taxa- Anadara8 sites
- Dentalium (Dentalium)8 sites
- Anomia simplex7 sites
- Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula)7 sites
- Cerithium7 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinia)7 sites
- Lucinisca roigi7 sites
- Naticarius canrena7 sites
- Pitar (Lamelliconcha)7 sites
- Saccella7 sites
- Teinostoma (Aepystoma)7 sites
- Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia)7 sites
- Anadara (Sectiarca) inaequilateralis6 sites
- Lirophora6 sites
- Nassarius trinitatensis6 sites
- Noetia (Eontia) centrota6 sites
- Noetia sheldoniana6 sites
- Olivella (Minioliva)6 sites
- Sincola (Sincola) crassilabrum6 sites
- Tellina (Eurytellina)6 sites
- Argopecten5 sites
- Calyptraea centralis5 sites
- Cylichnella5 sites
- Epitonium (Asperiscala)5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Epitonium (Epitonium), 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- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad10
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel6
- New Species of Mollusca from the Entrerriense Formation (Upper Miocene) of Chubut Province, Argentina and species not previously reported from this formation. Part 1 - Gastropoda and Scaphopoda5
- Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy3
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel3
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina2
- Moluscos de la Formación Agueguexquite (Plioceno inferior) de Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México1
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama1
- Fossil mollusks from Carriacou, West Indies1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae)1
Each of the 36 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
3D model
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- Credit
- Biodiversity
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
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No picture of Epitonium (Epitonium) 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 (Epitonium), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itEpitonium through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798