Amphithalamus inclusus
Amphithalamus inclusus is a species of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Anabathridae.

P. Bartsch · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphithalamusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Barleeiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Barleeiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Barleeiidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Amphithalamus inclusus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
9 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Amphithalamus inclusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amphithalamus inclusus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Amphithalamus inclusus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
237 taxa- Barleeia subtenuis6 sites
- Homalopoma (Homalopoma) luridum6 sites
- Lottia limatula6 sites
- Acmaea mitra5 sites
- Actonia oldroydae5 sites
- Alvinia aequisculpta5 sites
- Alvinia purpurea5 sites
- Amphithalamus tenuis5 sites
- Antisabia panamensis5 sites
- Cerithiopsis5 sites
- Crepidula adunca5 sites
- Dendropoma lituella5 sites
- Epilucina californica5 sites
- Eulithidium pulloides5 sites
- Fissurella volcano5 sites
- Harfordia arnoldi5 sites
- Lacuna (Epheria) unifasciata5 sites
- Lasaea adansoni5 sites
- Lirobittium armillatum5 sites
- Lirularia optabilis5 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata5 sites
- Lottia scabra5 sites
- Mopalia muscosa5 sites
- Pomaulax gibberosa5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Amphithalamus inclusus, 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
3 references- Geology of San Nicolas Island, California5
- Invertebrate megafossils of Pleistocene (Sangamon Interglacial) age from Isla de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico2
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California2
Each of the 9 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 Amphithalamus inclusus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- P. Bartsch
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amphithalamus inclusus 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAmphithalamus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lozouet 1998