Aturia brazoensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AturiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Aturia brazoensis 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
7 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
4 formations
- Stone City Formation3
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Aturia brazoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aturia brazoensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aturia brazoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Anomia ephippioides1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) uxorispalmeri1 site
- Calorhadia (Litorhadia) evanescentior1 site
- Calorhadia compsa1 site
- Katherinella smithvillensis1 site
- Litorhadia1 site
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis1 site
- Orthoyoldia psammotaea1 site
- Pachecoa1 site
- Pachecoa (Pachecoa) sabinica1 site
- Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana1 site
- Venericor planicosta1 site
- Vokesula smithvillensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Aturia brazoensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Nautiloids of the genus Aturia from the Eocene of Texas and Alabama3
- Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas: supplement1
Each of the 7 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 Aturia brazoensis 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 Aturia brazoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aturia brazoensis 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 itAturia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stenzel 1935)