Epitonium multistriatum

Benny Albro · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
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 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
10 occurrences of Epitonium multistriatum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
10 occurrences- Miocene10%
- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene20%
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
7 formations
- Acredale Formation3
- New Orleans Barrier Trend Formation1
- Entrerriense Formation1
- Talparo Formation1
- Talbot Formation1
- Pamlico Formation1
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The named rock units Epitonium multistriatum 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 multistriatum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Epitonium multistriatum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
303 taxa- Acteocina canaliculata6 sites
- Crassostrea virginica6 sites
- Crepidula plana6 sites
- Epitonium angulatum6 sites
- Mulinia lateralis6 sites
- Abra aequalis5 sites
- Angulus texanus5 sites
- Anomia simplex5 sites
- Caryocorbula contracta5 sites
- Crassinella lunulata5 sites
- Crepidula fornicata5 sites
- Eontia ponderosa5 sites
- Epitonium rupicola5 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis5 sites
- Pandora (Pandora) trilineata5 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa4 sites
- Dinocardium robustum4 sites
- Eupleura caudata4 sites
- Littoraria irrorata4 sites
- Lunarca ovalis4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima4 sites
- Nuculana acuta4 sites
- Paramya subovata4 sites
- Parvanachis obesa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Epitonium multistriatum, 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
7 references- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia3
- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- 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 Scaphopoda1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad1
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Epitonium multistriatum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Benny Albro
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Epitonium multistriatum 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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1826)