Boltenella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FasciolariinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 59.24 Mya.
8 occurrences of Boltenella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
8 occurrences- Late Cretaceous63%
- Paleocene38%
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
3 formations
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group3
- Agatdal Formation3
- Umzamba Formation2
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The named rock units Boltenella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Boltenella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Boltenella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
646 taxa- Turritella5 sites
- Cylichna4 sites
- Haplovoluta4 sites
- Turricula4 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) cretacea3 sites
- Acteon3 sites
- Amaurellina3 sites
- Amaurellina stephensoni3 sites
- Ampullina3 sites
- Amuletum3 sites
- Anchura convexa3 sites
- Anomalofusus substriatus3 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)3 sites
- Bellifusus curvicostatus3 sites
- Bizarrus abnormalis3 sites
- Buccinopsis solida3 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) americanus3 sites
- Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) argenteus3 sites
- Calyptraea3 sites
- Cerithiella3 sites
- Cerithium nodoliratum3 sites
- Cerithium semirugatum3 sites
- Cerithium weeksi3 sites
- Charonia univaricosum3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Boltenella, 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
5 references- Paleocene gastropods from Nûgssuaq, West Greenland3
- New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian-Campanian, South Africa) based on newly collected material2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Boltenella 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 Boltenella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Boltenella 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 itFasciolariinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wade 1917