Tibia (Hippochrenes) fissura

Not Tibia (Hippochrenes) fissura. This is Tibia fissura (Coquebert & Brongniart, 1793), a relative — both are Hippochrenidae.
Stichting Schepsel Schelp · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HippochrenesPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Stromboidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Tibia (Hippochrenes) fissura 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
6 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 Tibia (Hippochrenes) fissura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tibia (Hippochrenes) fissura and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tibia (Hippochrenes) fissura and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
346 taxa- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium)3 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina3 sites
- Ficus3 sites
- Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa3 sites
- Hipponix3 sites
- Rimella fissurella3 sites
- Seraphs3 sites
- Amaea2 sites
- Ampullaria sigaretina2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
- Batillaria2 sites
- Benoistia2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Cassis (Morionella) verrucosa2 sites
- Cepatia cepacea2 sites
- Clava (Semivertagus)2 sites
- Clava (Striovertagus)2 sites
- Crommium2 sites
- Cypraedia elegans2 sites
- Diastoma costellatum2 sites
- Dientomochilus ornatus2 sites
- Euspira2 sites
- Globularia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Tibia (Hippochrenes) fissura, 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
4 references- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique2
- Extrait d'un mémoire sur la formation de la coquille de Strombus fissurella, et sur deux espèces analogues à celle-ci2
- Une espèce nouvelle de Rostellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Littorinimorpha) dans le Lutétien (Éocène moyen) du bassin de Paris. Redécouverte du matériel type de Hippochrenes fissura (Coquebert de Montbret & Brongniart, 1793)1
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)1
Each of the 6 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 Tibia fissura (Coquebert & Brongniart, 1793)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Schepsel Schelp
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tibia (Hippochrenes) fissura 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 itHippochrenes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Coquebert and Brongniart 1793)