Sinistrella americana
No picture of Sinistrella americana 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 Sinistrella americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinistrellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Sinistrella americana 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
3 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group11
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group2
- Yazoo Clay Formation · Jackson Group2
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The named rock units Sinistrella americana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sinistrella americana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sinistrella americana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
288 taxa- Caestocorbula wailesiana9 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta9 sites
- Corbula densata8 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis8 sites
- Bittium koeneni7 sites
- Bullata semen7 sites
- Hipponix7 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis7 sites
- Polinices weisbordi7 sites
- Spisula jacksonensis7 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus6 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus6 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus6 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis6 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata6 sites
- Kapalmerella arenicola6 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta6 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata6 sites
- Acteon idoneus5 sites
- Agaronia media5 sites
- Architectonica bellastriata5 sites
- Bonellitia jacksonica5 sites
- Capulus americanus5 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Sinistrella americana, 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- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals4
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda4
- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi3
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area2
- Timing of latest Eocene molluscan extinction patterns in Mississippi1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
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 content0
No picture of Sinistrella americana 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 Sinistrella americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sinistrella americana 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 itSinistrella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Aldrich 1885)