Athleta (Volutospina) nodosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Athleta (Volutospina)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Athleta (Volutospina) nodosa 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 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
3 formations
- Barton Clay Formation2
- Earnley Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group1
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The named rock units Athleta (Volutospina) nodosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Athleta (Volutospina) nodosa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Athleta (Volutospina) nodosa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
609 taxa- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum4 sites
- Clavilithes4 sites
- Corbula4 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica4 sites
- Crassatella4 sites
- Turricula4 sites
- Ampullina3 sites
- Asthenotoma pupa3 sites
- Callista3 sites
- Callocardia (Nitidavenus) nitidula3 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina3 sites
- Conomitra3 sites
- Cornulina minax3 sites
- Cryptoconus3 sites
- Gemmula3 sites
- Gigantostrea gigantica3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Ptychatractus interruptus3 sites
- Pyrazus3 sites
- Roxania3 sites
- Scaphander3 sites
- Stirpulina coronata3 sites
- Strepsidura3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Athleta (Volutospina) nodosa, 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
3 references- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire2
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex1
- Fossils from the Bracklesham Group exposed in the M27 Motorway excavations, Southampton, Hampshire1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Athleta (Volutospina) nodosa 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 (Volutospina) nodosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Athleta (Volutospina) nodosa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1829)