Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Tropisurcula (Eodrillia)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- 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.
43 occurrences of Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana 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
43 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
6 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group24
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Stone City Formation3
- Kosciusko Formation2
- Yegua Formation · Claiborne Group2
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The named rock units Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
555 taxa- Buccitriton texanum32 sites
- Athleta petrosa30 sites
- Cadulus29 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta29 sites
- Latirus moorei28 sites
- Pyramidella28 sites
- Ficus27 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis27 sites
- Michela trabeatoides27 sites
- Microdrillia27 sites
- Turritella27 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii26 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni24 sites
- Bonellitia22 sites
- Sinum22 sites
- Ancilla staminea21 sites
- Bullata semen21 sites
- Fusimitra21 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)21 sites
- Polinices21 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus20 sites
- Mesalia claibornensis20 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis20 sites
- Cochlespira engonata19 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana, 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
5 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals17
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)14
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda7
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs2
Each of the 43 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 Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana 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 Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana 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 itTropisurcula (Eodrillia) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1865)