Bathytormus alaeformis
No picture of Bathytormus alaeformis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Bathytormus alaeformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Crassatella (Bathytormus)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
27 occurrences of Bathytormus alaeformis 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
27 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
- Aquia Formation · Pamunkey Group25
- Vincentown Formation1
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The named rock units Bathytormus alaeformis 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.
Bathytormus alaeformis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Bathytormus alaeformis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Ostrea4 sites
- Cucullaea gigantea3 sites
- Kapalmerella mortoni3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Caricella2 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) ovatus2 sites
- Pycnodonte2 sites
- Pyropsis2 sites
- Turritella humerosa2 sites
- <Callianassid>1 site
- Acrodus1 site
- Aetobatis arcuatus1 site
- Aetobatus irregularis1 site
- Amtaaguar crassus1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Arca1 site
- Argyrotheca beecheri1 site
- Athleta petrosa1 site
- Aves1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Bathytormus alaeformis, 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
6 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda21
- Stratigraphy and Characteristic Mollusks of the Pamunkey Group (Lower Tertiary) and the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group-Virginia Coastal Plain2
- A detailed taxonomy of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Crassatellidae in the Eastern United States - an example of the nature of extinction at the boundary1
- Macrofossils from the Vincentown Formation (Paleocene) of New Jersey1
- A new species of Pulvinites (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the upper Paleocene Paspotansa Member of the Aquia Formation in Virginia1
- Contributions to the Eocene fauna of the Middle Atlantic slope1
Each of the 27 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
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No picture of Bathytormus alaeformis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Bathytormus alaeformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bathytormus alaeformis 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 itCrassatella (Bathytormus) through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1830)