Bathytormus clarkensis

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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 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 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
28 occurrences of Bathytormus clarkensis 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
28 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
8 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group11
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group9
- Yazoo Clay Formation · Jackson Group2
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group2
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Upper Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Bathytormus clarkensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bathytormus clarkensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bathytormus clarkensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
427 taxa- Pseudoliva vetusta9 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella8 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis8 sites
- Athleta petrosa7 sites
- Turritella7 sites
- Turritella nasuta7 sites
- Athleta haleanus6 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis6 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda6 sites
- Venericardia (Venericor) densata6 sites
- Buccitriton texanum5 sites
- Cadulus5 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta5 sites
- Chlamys wahtubbeana5 sites
- Conus sauridens5 sites
- Eopleurotoma5 sites
- Ficus5 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella5 sites
- Haustator rina5 sites
- Lapparia5 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis5 sites
- Ancilla staminea4 sites
- Anomia lisbonensis4 sites
- Caestocorbula fossata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Bathytormus clarkensis, 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
8 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda14
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals4
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region4
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area2
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)1
- Marine Macro-Invertebrate Paleoenvirionmental Interpretation of the Harvey Site (Cook Mountain, Eocene) in North-Central Louisiana1
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda1
Each of the 28 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 Bathytormus clarkensis
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No 3D scan of Bathytormus clarkensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1900)