Aforia

Aforia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.

Aforia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
aforiaPBDB
Sits inside
CochlespiridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 15 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 15 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 15 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.4–4.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.1–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence33.9 Mya5.333 Mya41.8 Mya2.9 Mya

15 occurrences of Aforia on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

15 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

11 formations

Esmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WBlakeley — 48.16°N, 123.95°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.59°N, 123.21°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WRateginskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EShark Hole Point — 9.06°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WMakah — 48.32°N, 124.45°WMarrowstone — 48.05°N, 122.69°WTwin River — 48.17°N, 123.96°W

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The named rock units Aforia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aforia and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Aforia and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

322 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Aforia, 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

11 references

Each of the 15 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 Aforia

Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aforia 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 itCochlespiridae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1889