Pleurotomoides

Pleurotomoides is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Clathurellidae.

Pleurotomoides

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
ClathurellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 56 occurrencesMiocene — about 54 of 56 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 56 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 56 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20.45 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

56 occurrences of Pleurotomoides on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

56 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

7 formations

Werder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°E

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The named rock units Pleurotomoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleurotomoides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pleurotomoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

564 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Pleurotomoides, 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

7 references

Each of the 56 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 content1

Picture of Pleurotomoides

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1831