Agathodonta

Agathodonta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Chilodontaidae.

Agathodonta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChilodontinaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113.2 Mya37.71 Mya121 Mya32 Mya

2 occurrences of Agathodonta on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

2 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

2 formations

Alisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WPallinup Siltstone — 35.02°S, 117.89°E

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

Agathodonta and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Agathodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Agathodonta, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Agathodonta

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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 itChilodontinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1918