Agaronia bombylis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AgaroniaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
- 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.
22 occurrences of Agaronia bombylis 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
22 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
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group11
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group1
- McBean Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Wautubbee Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Agaronia bombylis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Agaronia bombylis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Agaronia bombylis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
577 taxa- Calyptraphorus velatus15 sites
- Ancilla staminea14 sites
- Athleta petrosa14 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda13 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis12 sites
- Neverita limula12 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta12 sites
- Buccitriton sagenum11 sites
- Bullata semen11 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata11 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) aequorea11 sites
- Crepidula lirata11 sites
- Haustator carinata11 sites
- Mesalia vetusta11 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina10 sites
- Ficus10 sites
- Glycymeris10 sites
- Glycymeris staminea10 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella10 sites
- Lucina10 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata10 sites
- Parmicorbula gibbosa10 sites
- Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata10 sites
- Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Agaronia bombylis, 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 hyperthermals7
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama7
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda5
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs1
Each of the 22 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 Agaronia bombylis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Agaronia bombylis 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 itAgaronia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1833