Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Athleta (Neoathleta)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara and its relatives
EoceneWhere Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
351 taxa- Haustator imbricataria3 sites
- Angaria2 sites
- Anomia tenuistriata2 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina) spinosa2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata2 sites
- Cepatia cepacea2 sites
- Clavilithes2 sites
- Clavilithes noae2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Diastoma costellatum2 sites
- Editharus polygonus2 sites
- Glycymeris pulvinata2 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera2 sites
- Lyria harpula2 sites
- Marginella2 sites
- Mitreola labratula2 sites
- Nemocardium2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Pinna2 sites
- Rimella fissurella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara, 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
4 references- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)1
- Account of Excavations into the Campanile Bed (Eocene, Selsey Formation) at Stubbington, Hants1
- Eocene shells from Nigeria1
- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara 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 Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara 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 itAthleta (Neoathleta) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1802)