Euchelus (Herpetopoma) instrictus

Euchelus instrictus (A.Gould, 1849), a relative of Euchelus (Herpetopoma) instrictus — not Euchelus (Herpetopoma) instrictus itself

Not Euchelus (Herpetopoma) instrictus. This is Euchelus instrictus (A.Gould, 1849), a relative — both are Chilodontaidae.

via GBIF · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
Euchelus (Herpetopoma)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Euchelus
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Euchelus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Euchelus
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.

Miocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Euchelus (Herpetopoma) instrictus on record. 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

5 occurrences

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 the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Euchelus (Herpetopoma) instrictus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Euchelus instrictus (A.Gould, 1849)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euchelus (Herpetopoma) instrictus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEuchelus (Herpetopoma) through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1849)