Amauropsis martinezensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmauropsisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
35 occurrences of Amauropsis martinezensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
35 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
5 formations
- Santa Susana Formation17
- Martinez Formation11
- Sepultura Formation1
- Las Virgenes Formation1
- San Francisquito Formation1
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The named rock units Amauropsis martinezensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amauropsis martinezensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Amauropsis martinezensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Cucullaea mathewsonii23 sites
- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis23 sites
- Dentalium cooperi17 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum14 sites
- Polinices hornii13 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus13 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme11 sites
- Retipirula crassitesta11 sites
- Glycymerita major10 sites
- Mesalia martinezensis10 sites
- Tellina (Saulella) undulifera10 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus9 sites
- Palaeopsammia zitteli8 sites
- Crassatella6 sites
- Macrocallista stantoni6 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii6 sites
- Sycum mucronatum6 sites
- Urosyca caudata6 sites
- Brachysphingus gibbosus5 sites
- Crassatella branneri5 sites
- Glycimeris major5 sites
- Macrocallista5 sites
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta5 sites
- Pitar quadratus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Amauropsis martinezensis, 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- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California11
- Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California8
- Geology and oil resources of a part of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California5
- Geology of the coast ranges immediately north of the San Francisco Bay region, California4
- Fossil gastropods from the Late Paleocene Sepultura Formation, Baja California, Mexico1
- Paleontological evidence of the Campanian to Early Paleocene paleogeography of Baja California1
- A new species of Fulgoraria (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Paleocene of southern California1
- A new Paleocene gastropod from southern California1
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California1
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
- The Martinez Eocene and associated formations at Rock Creek on the western border of the Mohave Desert area1
Each of the 35 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 Amauropsis martinezensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Amauropsis martinezensis 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 itAmauropsis through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dickerson 1914)