Struthioptera camachoi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StruthiopteraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- 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 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
29 occurrences of Struthioptera camachoi 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
29 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Struthioptera camachoi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Struthioptera camachoi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Struthioptera camachoi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
147 taxa- Polinices (Polinices) subtenuis26 sites
- Saxolucina sharmani20 sites
- Cucullaea raea16 sites
- Eurhomalea newtoni16 sites
- Antarctodarwinella nordenskjoldi15 sites
- Lahillia wilckensi15 sites
- Austrobuccinum tuberosum14 sites
- Austroficopsis wimani14 sites
- Austrotoma oliveroi13 sites
- Colposigma euthenia12 sites
- Sudonassarius antarctohimaleos12 sites
- Cyclorismina marwicki11 sites
- Eucrassatella wilckensi11 sites
- Austroficopsis seymourensis10 sites
- Antarctodarwinella ellioti9 sites
- Australoneilo rossi9 sites
- Sigapatella disapicula9 sites
- Zelandiella verrucosa9 sites
- Austrosullivania lata8 sites
- Eoscaphella fordycei8 sites
- Eurhomalea antarctica8 sites
- Conomitra iredalei7 sites
- Mactra irizari7 sites
- Modiolus thomsoni7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Struthioptera camachoi, 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
2 references- Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy28
- Note on a new ocurrence of the southern hemisphere aporrhaid gastropod Struthioptera Finlay & Marwick on Seymour Island, Antarctica1
Each of the 29 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 content2

Picture of Struthioptera camachoi
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- Commercial use
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3D model
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- Sketchfab
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itStruthioptera through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zinsmeister 1977