Pseudoneptunea

Pseudoneptunea

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
BuccinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 3 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56 Mya5.333 Mya60 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Pseudoneptunea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

17 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

11 formations

Hatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WFutagojima — 33.00°N, 129.50°ETuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WShiratake — 32.42°N, 130.17°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EEptachorion — 40.12°N, 21.22°EMarthaville — 31.63°N, 93.64°WSampolakosa — 5.56°S, 122.74°E

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The named rock units Pseudoneptunea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudoneptunea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pseudoneptunea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

685 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Pseudoneptunea, 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

12 references

Each of the 17 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 Pseudoneptunea

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pseudoneptunea was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBuccinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kobelt 1882)