Bathybembix columbiana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BathybembixPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Bathybembix columbiana 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
22 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Bathybembix columbiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bathybembix columbiana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bathybembix columbiana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Conus weltoni9 sites
- Moerella quasimacoma7 sites
- Echinophoria dalli6 sites
- Exilia bentsonae6 sites
- Fusinus dilleri5 sites
- Scaphander impunctatus5 sites
- Natica (Natica) weaveri4 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) clementensis4 sites
- Procerapex bentsonae4 sites
- Solariella (Solariella) cicca4 sites
- Sveltella4 sites
- Turrinosyrinx nodifera4 sites
- Bonellitia (Admetula) tumida3 sites
- Boreoscala3 sites
- Bruclarkia3 sites
- Conchocele bathyaulax3 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) keaseyense3 sites
- Gemmula rockcreekensis3 sites
- Lamelliconcha clarki3 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) cascadensis3 sites
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) tessellata2 sites
- Cochlodesma bainbridgensis2 sites
- Conomitra vernoniana2 sites
- Cyclocardia moniligena2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Bathybembix columbiana, 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- Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon20
- The earliest bathymodiolin mussels: An Evaluatio of Eocene and Oligocene taxa from deep-sea methane seep deposits in Western Washington State1
- Marine Oligocene of Oregon1
Each of the 22 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 content1

Picture of Bathybembix columbiana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Bathybembix columbiana 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 itBathybembix through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1909)