Retusa galba

Retusa galba

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RetusaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Retusidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Retusidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Retusidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 88 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 88 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 86 of 88 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 88 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 20 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 20 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 20 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya37.71 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

88 occurrences of Retusa galba 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

88 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

14 formations

Lisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 31.26°N, 93.82°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WWeches — 31.76°N, 93.09°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WKosciusko — 32.17°N, 88.83°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WSomerset — 18.32°N, 77.18°WSeguin — 30.23°N, 97.42°WYegua — 30.63°N, 96.51°WPoerters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.42°WWautubbee — 32.34°N, 89.14°W

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The named rock units Retusa galba has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Retusa galba and its relatives

Eocene

Where Retusa galba and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

770 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Retusa galba, 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

11 references

Each of the 88 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 Retusa galba

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Retusa galba 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.