Strepsidura
Searched as Strepsidura lincolnensis lorenzanum. The Paleobiology Database treats Strepsidura as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudolivinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Strepsidura 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Strepsidura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Strepsidura and its relatives
EoceneWhere Strepsidura and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,015 taxa- Natica27 sites
- Turritella27 sites
- Turricula21 sites
- Pseudoliva17 sites
- Dentalium16 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)15 sites
- Ostrea15 sites
- Tellina15 sites
- Corbula14 sites
- Falsifusus14 sites
- Glycymeris14 sites
- Pitar14 sites
- Acteon13 sites
- Architectonica13 sites
- Clavilithes13 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)13 sites
- Levifusus13 sites
- Nucula13 sites
- Calyptraphorus12 sites
- Crassatella12 sites
- Fusinus12 sites
- Bittium11 sites
- Cucullaea11 sites
- Ficus11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Strepsidura, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Strepsidura
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Strepsidura 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 itPseudolivinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)