Antalis

Antalis is a genus of tusk shells, marine scaphopod mollusks.

Antalis

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
DentaliidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Dentaliida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Dentaliida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Dentaliida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 264 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Permian — about 3 of 216 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 216 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 216 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 216 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 216 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 216 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 216 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 216 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 216 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 216 occurrencesEocene — about 74 of 216 occurrencesOligocene — about 31 of 216 occurrencesMiocene — about 54 of 216 occurrencesPliocene — about 11 of 216 occurrencesPleistocene — about 27 of 216 occurrences272–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–236 Mya — about 6 occurrences236–227 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–54 Mya — about 9 occurrences54–45 Mya — about 22 occurrences45–36 Mya — about 40 occurrences36–27 Mya — about 31 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 23 occurrences18–9.1 Mya — about 33 occurrences9.1–0 Mya — about 42 occurrences264.28 Mya129 ka272 Mya0 Mya

216 occurrences of Antalis on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

216 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

64 formations

Moodys Branch — 31.86°N, 88.70°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.26°N, 93.82°WMoodys Branch — 32.04°N, 92.02°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 31.92°N, 91.92°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EWangaloa — 46.20°S, 169.92°EWangaloa — 46.30°S, 168.52°EWangaloa — 46.20°S, 168.92°EWangaloa — 46.22°S, 169.98°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°EByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.25°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.72°N, 118.28°WJackson — 26.27°N, 98.82°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WYazoo Clay — 32.04°N, 92.02°WYazoo Clay — 32.41°N, 90.24°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.02°N, 7.71°ELomita Marl — 33.79°N, 118.34°WSciliar — 46.35°N, 12.02°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.47°N, 2.17°EFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°E

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The named rock units Antalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Antalis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Antalis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,845 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 142 sites for Antalis, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

69 references

Each of the 216 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. 57 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 content2

Picture of Antalis

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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What may have been alongside itDentaliidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1854)