Toulminella alabamensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ToulminellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mathildidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Mathildidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Mathildidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Toulminella alabamensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
7 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
- Porters Creek Formation · Midway Group6
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Toulminella alabamensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Toulminella alabamensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Toulminella alabamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
259 taxa- Cucullaea6 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)5 sites
- Falsifusus5 sites
- Levifusus5 sites
- Natica5 sites
- Polinices eminulus5 sites
- Pseudolatirus tortilis5 sites
- Strepsidura5 sites
- Turritella5 sites
- Calyptraphorus4 sites
- Exilia pergracilis4 sites
- Levifusus pagodiformis4 sites
- Mesalia alabamiensis4 sites
- Orthosurcula4 sites
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis4 sites
- Cadulus3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Latirus3 sites
- Priscoficus3 sites
- Pseudoliva unicarinata3 sites
- Scaphella3 sites
- Turritella humerosa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Toulminella alabamensis, 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- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- New Eocene species from Alabama1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Toulminella alabamensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Toulminella alabamensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Toulminella alabamensis 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 itToulminella through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Aldrich 1886)