Harpagodes

Harpagodes is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Harpagodidae.

Harpagodes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HarpagodinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 115 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 16 of 115 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 28 of 115 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 29 of 115 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 115 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 115 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–178 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences178–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–162 Mya — about 12 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 6 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 5 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 9 occurrences150–146 Mya — about 8 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 2 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 6 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 5 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 23 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 15 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya83.6 Mya187 Mya64 Mya

115 occurrences of Harpagodes on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

115 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

28 formations

Galala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 45.17°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°ERaha — 29.13°N, 33.28°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WQishn — 14.27°N, 48.57°EQishn — 14.30°N, 48.49°EAbu Qada — 29.13°N, 33.28°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EHanifa — 23.90°N, 46.28°EHanifa — 23.08°N, 46.53°EHanifa — 25.02°N, 46.22°EMarnes de Smail — 36.06°N, 4.39°EMarnes de Smail — 35.19°N, 4.02°EMarnes de Smail — 35.86°N, 3.83°EZohar — 30.93°N, 34.98°EVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°EMergel and Kalk Zone — 47.02°N, 6.92°ETataouina — 33.00°N, 10.47°EFalaise de Bikfaya — 33.92°N, 35.71°EMarrat — 24.25°N, 46.08°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.43°N, 46.42°EKieselkalk — 47.42°N, 9.90°EAhlen — 51.75°N, 8.03°ESan Juan Raya — 18.32°N, 97.63°WPindiga — 10.28°N, 11.32°ELa Manga — 35.80°S, 69.78°WSan Ricardo — 16.67°N, 93.53°WPicofrentes — 41.12°N, 2.77°W

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The named rock units Harpagodes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Harpagodes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Harpagodes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

824 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Harpagodes, 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

36 references

Each of the 115 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 Harpagodes

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.

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What may have been alongside itHarpagodinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1870