Aturia clarkei
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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 least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
20 occurrences of Aturia clarkei 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
20 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
5 formations
- Merlinleigh Sandstone Formation11
- Tortachilla Limestone Formation5
- Blanche Point Formation1
- Giralia Calcarenite Formation1
- Clifton Formation · Heytesbury Group1
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The named rock units Aturia clarkei 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 clarkei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aturia clarkei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Glycymeris cainozoica6 sites
- Dosinia (Kereia) numerosissima5 sites
- Teredinidae5 sites
- Chama4 sites
- Venericardia capricornis4 sites
- Periglypta weegeeree3 sites
- Tugali3 sites
- Turbo (Euninella) hamiltonensis3 sites
- Spondylus gaderopoides2 sites
- Zelandiella2 sites
- Acarinina1 site
- Aturoidea brunnschweileri1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Catapsydrax1 site
- Cucullaea adelaidensis1 site
- Demospongiae1 site
- Eutrephoceras1 site
- Globigerinatheka index1 site
- Miltha1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Pachydyptes simpsoni1 site
- Parasubbotina inaequispira1 site
- Subbotina eocaena1 site
- Subbotina linaperta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Aturia clarkei, 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
7 references- Eocene molluscs from the Merlinleigh Sandstone, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia9
- Pelagic fossils (Aturia, penguins, whales) from the Tertiary of South Australia5
- The genus Aturia in the Tertiary of Australia2
- Silicified Eocene molluscs from the Lower Murchison district, southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia1
- Upper Cretaceous and early Tertiary nautiloids from Western Australia1
- A new Aturia from the Tertiary of South Australia1
- New nautiloids from the older Tertiary of Victoria1
Each of the 20 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
Media content0
No picture of Aturia clarkei 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 clarkei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aturia clarkei 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. Teichert 1944