Apiotoma californiana
No picture of Apiotoma californiana 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 Apiotoma californiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ApiotomaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Apiotoma californiana on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Apiotoma californiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apiotoma californiana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Apiotoma californiana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Cylichnina tantilla3 sites
- Turricula cooperi3 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus2 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata2 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki2 sites
- Turritella andersoni2 sites
- Turritella buwaldana2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata1 site
- Arene mcleani1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) cliffensis1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Chedevillia saltonensis1 site
- Claibornites (Claibornites) diegoensis1 site
- Clavilithes tabulatus1 site
- Conus remondii1 site
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni1 site
- Cryptochorda (Cryptochorda) californica1 site
- Eocernina hannibali1 site
- Ficopsis remondii1 site
- Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa1 site
- Galeodea californica1 site
- Lyria andersoni1 site
- Natica uvasana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Apiotoma californiana, 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
2 references- Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California2
- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Apiotoma californiana 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 Apiotoma californiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apiotoma californiana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itApiotoma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Squires 1987