Cantharus (Eocantharus)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CantharusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
15 occurrences of Cantharus (Eocantharus) 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
15 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
7 formations
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group5
- London Clay Formation4
- Barton Clay Formation1
- Calcaire de Mons Formation1
- Czarnorzeki Beds Formation1
- Markley Formation1
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The named rock units Cantharus (Eocantharus) 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.
Cantharus (Eocantharus) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cantharus (Eocantharus) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
802 taxa- Acteon7 sites
- Odostomia7 sites
- Pitar (Calpitaria) sulcatarius6 sites
- Seila mundula6 sites
- Sigatica hantoniensis6 sites
- Anomia anomialis5 sites
- Cylichna5 sites
- Ringicula5 sites
- Sycostoma bulbiforme5 sites
- Tibia (Eotibia) sublucida5 sites
- Cerithiopsis4 sites
- Chama4 sites
- Cimomia imperialis4 sites
- Cochlespira gyrata4 sites
- Euspira glaucinoides4 sites
- Haustator dixoni4 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera4 sites
- Mathilda4 sites
- Melanella4 sites
- Nucula4 sites
- Panopea intermedia4 sites
- Priscoficus smithi4 sites
- Sigapatella4 sites
- Syrnola angusta4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Cantharus (Eocantharus), 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- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex5
- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire3
- Fauna from the Markley Formation (Upper Eocene) on Pleasant Creek, California2
- The London Clay of Earldoms Clay Pit, Whiteparish, Wiltshire1
- Exposures of the Barton Beds along the Highland Water in the New Forest, Hants1
- Revision des Gastropoda du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique. I, Les Gastropoda du Calcaire de Mons1
- Mollusca of the Babica Clays (Paleocene) of the Middle Carpathians. Pt. I. Gastropoda1
- Eocene Faunas from the Department of Bolivar, Colombia1
Each of the 15 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.
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCantharus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1938)