Sinum bilix

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Sinum
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Sinum
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Sinum
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
27 occurrences of Sinum bilix 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
27 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
8 formations
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group6
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Stone City Formation3
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Sinum bilix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sinum bilix and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sinum bilix and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
440 taxa- Turritella12 sites
- Athleta petrosa11 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis11 sites
- Ficus11 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta11 sites
- Ancilla staminea10 sites
- Turbinolia (Turbinolia) pharetra10 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella9 sites
- Buccitriton texanum8 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata8 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus8 sites
- Gegania antiquata8 sites
- Mesalia vetusta8 sites
- Polinices8 sites
- Retusa galba8 sites
- Turritella nasuta8 sites
- Athleta lisbonensis7 sites
- Buccitriton sagenum7 sites
- Bullata semen7 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta7 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni7 sites
- Crepidula lirata7 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina7 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Sinum bilix, 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
9 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda6
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area5
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region4
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)3
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain2
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama2
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs1
- Notes on Lower Tertiary deposits of Colombia and their molluscan and foraminiferal fauna1
Each of the 27 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 Sinum bilix
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSinum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)