Athleta (Volutocorbis)

Volutocorbis Dall, 1890, a relative of Athleta (Volutocorbis) — not Athleta (Volutocorbis) itself

Not Athleta (Volutocorbis). This is Volutocorbis Dall, 1890, a relative — both are Volutidae.

Bouchet, Rosado & Strong coll. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
AthletaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 210 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 141 of 210 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 67 of 210 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 210 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 19 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 25 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 25 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 24 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 24 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 13 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 7 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences66 Mya37.71 Mya73 Mya33.1 Mya

210 occurrences of Athleta (Volutocorbis) on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

210 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

46 formations

Kincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 30.08°N, 97.50°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.00°N, 97.60°WKincaid — 31.32°N, 96.72°WKincaid — 32.98°N, 95.93°WKincaid — 31.30°N, 96.88°WKincaid — 30.10°N, 97.30°WKincaid — 29.88°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 29.38°N, 99.02°WKincaid — 33.13°N, 96.10°WKincaid — 31.52°N, 96.53°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 31.36°N, 96.04°WKincaid — 31.37°N, 96.69°WWills Point — 30.17°N, 97.46°WWills Point — 30.08°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 31.70°N, 96.40°WWills Point — 32.98°N, 95.93°WWills Point — 30.00°N, 97.60°WWills Point — 30.33°N, 97.37°WWills Point — 32.08°N, 96.47°WWills Point — 30.10°N, 97.30°WWills Point — 29.96°N, 97.45°WWills Point — 32.14°N, 96.09°WWills Point — 29.77°N, 97.68°WWills Point — 31.47°N, 96.67°WWills Point — 29.57°N, 97.90°WWills Point — 29.42°N, 98.57°WWills Point — 29.28°N, 98.61°WWills Point — 28.71°N, 100.50°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 32.20°N, 87.76°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.57°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WPorters Creek — 32.37°N, 88.03°WPorters Creek — 31.94°N, 87.05°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 29.80°N, 97.65°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WReklaw — 31.86°N, 94.94°WSeguin — 30.23°N, 97.42°WSeguin — 30.80°N, 96.95°WSeguin — 30.33°N, 97.37°WSeguin — 30.01°N, 96.87°WNaheola — 31.99°N, 87.29°WNaheola — 32.23°N, 88.02°WNaheola — 31.92°N, 87.08°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WClayton — 32.08°N, 87.40°WClayton — 32.07°N, 87.27°WClayton — 35.23°N, 88.83°WClayton — 35.06°N, 88.89°WRoseburg — 43.31°N, 123.12°WRoseburg — 43.02°N, 123.93°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.05°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WMcBean — 33.32°N, 81.64°WMcBean — 33.50°N, 80.89°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°WDomanda — 29.95°N, 70.12°EDomanda — 29.46°N, 69.96°EDomanda — 30.42°N, 70.51°EHarudi — 23.53°N, 68.68°EHarudi — 23.58°N, 68.61°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°ENanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°EGhazij — 30.16°N, 67.72°EGhazij — 30.42°N, 70.51°EWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WPoerters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.42°WLellinge Greensand — 55.67°N, 12.58°E

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The named rock units Athleta (Volutocorbis) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Athleta (Volutocorbis) and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Athleta (Volutocorbis) and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

2,081 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Athleta (Volutocorbis), 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

50 references

Each of the 210 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. 38 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 Volutocorbis Dall, 1890

Source
GBIF
Credit
Bouchet, Rosado & Strong coll.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAthleta through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1890)