Fractolatirus
Fractolatirus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.
No picture of Fractolatirus 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 Fractolatirus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeristerniinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
3 occurrences of Fractolatirus on record. 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
3 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
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The named rock units Fractolatirus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Amalda (Gracilispira)2 sites
- Austrofusus (Austrofusus)2 sites
- Bathyarca2 sites
- Caestocorbula2 sites
- Cochlespira2 sites
- Coluzea2 sites
- Comitas2 sites
- Conilithes2 sites
- Cordieria2 sites
- Cucullaea (Latiarca)2 sites
- Duplipecten2 sites
- Eopleurotoma2 sites
- Eoscobinella tahuia2 sites
- Exilia2 sites
- Falsicolus2 sites
- Fusiaphera2 sites
- Fusimitra2 sites
- Gemmula2 sites
- Limatula (Limatula)2 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) waihaoensis2 sites
- Marshallaria2 sites
- Marshallena2 sites
- Nassicola2 sites
- Peculator2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fractolatirus, 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
2 references- Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics2
- The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia (Part 1)1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Fractolatirus 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 Fractolatirus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fractolatirus 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPeristerniinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1936