Tomopleura

Tomopleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.

Tomopleura

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
BorsoniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20.45 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Tomopleura on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

11 occurrences

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

6 formations

Rifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°EToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WKutai Basin — 0.17°N, 117.44°E

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The named rock units Tomopleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tomopleura and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tomopleura and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

343 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tomopleura, 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

Each of the 11 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 Tomopleura

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tomopleura 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBorsoniidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1904