Rimella rimosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RimellaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Strombidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strombidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Strombidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
15 occurrences of Rimella rimosa 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
15 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
5 formations
- Barton Beds Formation8
- Barton Clay Formation4
- Selsey Formation1
- Bracklesham Beds Formation1
- Qasr el-Sagha Formation1
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The named rock units Rimella rimosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rimella rimosa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Rimella rimosa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
402 taxa- Dentalium14 sites
- Corbula13 sites
- Cubitostrea plicata12 sites
- Glycymeris10 sites
- Haustator imbricataria10 sites
- Natica10 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata9 sites
- Natica labellata9 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta8 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum8 sites
- Turricula8 sites
- Xenophora8 sites
- Ancilla7 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica7 sites
- Crassatella7 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) davidsoni7 sites
- Serpula7 sites
- Stirpulina coronata7 sites
- Sycostoma7 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina)6 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina) athleta6 sites
- Bonellitia evulsa6 sites
- Bullinella6 sites
- Conomitra6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Rimella rimosa, 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
6 references- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire6
- The Upper Eocene, comprising the Barton and Upper Bagshot Formations4
- Exposures of the Barton Beds along the Highland Water in the New Forest, Hants2
- Account of Excavations into the Campanile Bed (Eocene, Selsey Formation) at Stubbington, Hants1
- The topography and geology of the Fayum Province of Egypt1
- On the Tertiary or SupraCretaceous Formations of the Isle of Wight as exhibited in the sections at Alum Bay and White Cliff Bay1
Each of the 15 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 Rimella rimosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Rimella rimosa 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 itRimella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Solander 1766)