Bonellitia evulsa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BonellitiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
18 occurrences of Bonellitia evulsa 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
18 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
5 formations
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group7
- Barton Clay Formation4
- Barton Beds Formation3
- Upper Cyrena Formation1
- Termofourà Formation1
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The named rock units Bonellitia evulsa 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.
Bonellitia evulsa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bonellitia evulsa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
757 taxa- Dentalium10 sites
- Turricula8 sites
- Amekichilus suturocostatum7 sites
- Cardita costaenodulosis7 sites
- Conospirus parisiensis7 sites
- Crassatella7 sites
- Crepidula falconeri7 sites
- Cubitostrea plicata7 sites
- Eovolva nigeriensis7 sites
- Epalxis (Bathytoma) turbida7 sites
- Fossularca africana7 sites
- Gemmula7 sites
- Notocorbula rugosa7 sites
- Solariaxis canaliculata7 sites
- Stellaxis bicingulata7 sites
- Turritella7 sites
- Volutospina conicoturrita7 sites
- Africoterebellum elongatum6 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina)6 sites
- Corbula6 sites
- Cyrtulotibia unidigitata6 sites
- Glycymeris6 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera6 sites
- Nuculana6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Bonellitia evulsa, 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- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria7
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire5
- Exposures of the Barton Beds along the Highland Water in the New Forest, Hants2
- Mollusc fauna of the Hungarian Upper Oligocene (Egerian)2
- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement1
- Karagyuleva, 19641
Each of the 18 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 Bonellitia evulsa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bonellitia evulsa 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 itBonellitia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Solander 1766