Amaea (Discoscala)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmaeaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
4 occurrences of Amaea (Discoscala) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Amaea (Discoscala) 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.
Amaea (Discoscala) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Amaea (Discoscala) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
372 taxa- Acteon1 site
- Adeorbis1 site
- Admete1 site
- Aequipecten1 site
- Aequipecten opercularis1 site
- Agapilia picta1 site
- Alaba1 site
- Alia1 site
- Alvania1 site
- Alvania brachia1 site
- Alvania perregularis1 site
- Amalda1 site
- Amalda glandiformis1 site
- Amalda obsoleta1 site
- Amaurellina (Pachycrommium) fahmii1 site
- Amauropsina1 site
- Ampullina (Ampullina) nakkadii1 site
- Ampullina (Pseudamaura) sabrii1 site
- Anadara fichteli1 site
- Ancilla1 site
- Anomia ephippium1 site
- Antalis1 site
- Antalis bouei1 site
- Aporrhais pespelecani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Amaea (Discoscala), 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- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement1
- Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy1
- A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods1
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Amaea (Discoscala) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Amaea (Discoscala), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amaea (Discoscala) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAmaea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Saccoa 1890)