Haustator dixoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HaustatorPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Haustator dixoni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Haustator dixoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Haustator dixoni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Haustator dixoni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
206 taxa- Euspira glaucinoides6 sites
- Pitar (Calpitaria) sulcatarius6 sites
- Eopleurotoma simillima5 sites
- Tibia (Eotibia) sublucida5 sites
- Arctica planata4 sites
- Cochlespira gyrata4 sites
- Cubitostrea multicostata4 sites
- Gemmula macrobia4 sites
- Odostomia4 sites
- Priscoficus smithi4 sites
- Ringicula turgida4 sites
- Seila mundula4 sites
- Sigatica hantoniensis4 sites
- Acteon3 sites
- Amygdalum simplex3 sites
- Anomia anomialis3 sites
- Antalis constricta3 sites
- Aporrhais sowerbii3 sites
- Bonellitia laeviuscula3 sites
- Bonellitia subevulsa3 sites
- Cantharus (Eocantharus) morrisii3 sites
- Cerithiella elongata3 sites
- Cimomia imperialis3 sites
- Cultellus affinis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Haustator dixoni, 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
4 references- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire3
- The London Clay and associated deposits exposed in Chichester Harbour (West Sussex)2
- The London Clay of Earldoms Clay Pit, Whiteparish, Wiltshire1
- A coral-mollusc (Goniaraea-Crassatella) dominated hardground community in a siliciclastic-carbonate sandstone (the lower Eocene Roda Formation, southern Pyrenees, Spain)1
Each of the 7 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 Haustator dixoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHaustator through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1861)