Levifusus mortoniopsis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Levifusus mortonopsisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
85 occurrences of Levifusus mortoniopsis 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
85 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
9 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group43
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group24
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Kosciusko Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Stone City Formation3
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The named rock units Levifusus mortoniopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Levifusus mortoniopsis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Levifusus mortoniopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
670 taxa- Athleta petrosa49 sites
- Ficus49 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta47 sites
- Buccitriton texanum46 sites
- Turritella45 sites
- Cadulus41 sites
- Latirus moorei41 sites
- Ancilla staminea38 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii36 sites
- Pyramidella34 sites
- Microdrillia33 sites
- Michela trabeatoides32 sites
- Retusa galba32 sites
- Fusimitra31 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis31 sites
- Sinum30 sites
- Bonellitia29 sites
- Bullata semen29 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis29 sites
- Eopleurotoma29 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella28 sites
- Cochlespira engonata28 sites
- Naticidae28 sites
- Turbinolia (Turbinolia) pharetra28 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Levifusus mortoniopsis, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
8 references- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)27
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals26
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda15
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs6
- Marine Macro-Invertebrate Paleoenvirionmental Interpretation of the Harvey Site (Cook Mountain, Eocene) in North-Central Louisiana3
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area3
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
Each of the 85 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.
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No picture of Levifusus mortoniopsis 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 Levifusus mortoniopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Levifusus mortoniopsis 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 itLevifusus mortonopsis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.