Haedropleura

Uncredited · 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
- HoraiclavidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 55 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.
27 occurrences of Haedropleura on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
27 occurrences- Paleocene4%
- Miocene19%
- Pliocene52%
- Pleistocene26%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Haedropleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Haedropleura and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Haedropleura and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
550 taxa- Crassispira10 sites
- Clavatula6 sites
- Crassopleura5 sites
- Archimediella4 sites
- Asthenotoma4 sites
- Eulimella4 sites
- Ficus conditus4 sites
- Iredalea4 sites
- Odostomia4 sites
- Syrnola4 sites
- Xenophora deshayesi4 sites
- Bittium spina3 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis3 sites
- Cerithiella3 sites
- Cima3 sites
- Cirsotrema3 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita3 sites
- Lucinoma borealis3 sites
- Microdrillia3 sites
- Mitrella3 sites
- Teretia3 sites
- Turricula3 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella3 sites
- Abra2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Haedropleura, 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- Molluschi marini del Plio-Pleistocene dell'Emilia-Romagna e della Toscana, Conoidea, Vol. 1 - Drilliidae e Turridae14
- Palaeoecology of the Pleistocene (MIS 5) outcrops of Santa Maria Island (Azores) in a complex oceanic tectonic setting6
- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement2
- The mollusc fauna of the Stemerdink Bed (Miocene, Reinbekian) from outcrops in the Slinge brook at Winterswijk-Brinkheurne (The Netherlands, province of Gelderland)2
- Molluscan Assemblage from the Marine Palaeocene Sequence in Southwestern Kachchh, Gujarat1
- The Marine Gram Formation at Gram, Denmark: Late Miocene Geology and Palaeontology1
- Checklist of the Pleistocene marine molluscs of Prainha and Lagoinhas (Santa Maria Island, Azores)1
Each of the 27 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

Picture of Haedropleura
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Haedropleura 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 itHoraiclavidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monterosato 1883)