Euspira achatensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EuspiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Euspira
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Euspira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Euspira
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Euspira achatensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
9 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
2 formations
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group4
- Boom Formation1
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The named rock units Euspira achatensis 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.
Euspira achatensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Euspira achatensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Ampullina vapincana2 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata2 sites
- Amblyacrum roemeri1 site
- Ampullaria sigaretina1 site
- Angaria1 site
- Anguilla1 site
- Argentina1 site
- Athleta (Neoathleta) mutatus1 site
- Atlantoraja cecilae1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia)1 site
- Batillaria1 site
- Borsonia1 site
- Bourdotia ermenonvillensis1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Burtinella1 site
- Capros1 site
- Carcharias contortidens1 site
- Cepatia cepacea1 site
- Chlamys (Nomurachlamys)1 site
- Chlamys biarritzensis1 site
- Chlamys solea1 site
- Cirsotrema1 site
- Cocculina reineckei1 site
- Coeloma rupeliense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Euspira achatensis, 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
5 references- The molluscan fauna of the Borgloon Formation in Belgium (Rupelian, Early Oligocene)4
- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]2
- An exceptional concentration of marine fossils associated with wood-fall in the Terhagen Member (Boom Formation; Schelle, Belgium), Rupelian of the southern North Sea Basin1
- Molluscs (Mollusca: Gastropoda, Bivalvia) from The Upper Eocene of Perunika Village (East Rhodopes, Bulgaria) – Preliminary Results1
- Karagyuleva, 19641
Each of the 9 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 Euspira achatensis 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 Euspira achatensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Euspira achatensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itEuspira through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Koninck 1838)