Amuletum

Amuletum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 85 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 68 of 85 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 85 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 85 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 17 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 17 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 11 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 7 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya48.07 Mya102 Mya36 Mya

85 occurrences of Amuletum on record, most of them in the Late 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

85 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

19 formations

Ripley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.22°N, 96.31°WCorsicana Marl — 32.07°N, 96.46°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.52°N, 96.58°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.13°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WMutsuo — 34.37°N, 135.41°ENeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WMoonkinu — 11.80°S, 130.40°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WGankin — 58.92°N, 81.58°ENanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°ESabinetown Bluff — 32.90°N, 93.00°W

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The named rock units Amuletum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amuletum and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Amuletum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,000 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Amuletum, 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

18 references

Each of the 85 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Amuletum

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amuletum 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 itTurridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1941