Chiraluta
No picture of Chiraluta 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 Chiraluta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VolutinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Chiraluta 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
3 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
3 formations
- Chira Formation1
- Degari Formation · Laki Group1
- Gazij Formation · Laki Group1
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The named rock units Chiraluta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chiraluta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Chiraluta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Nerita2 sites
- Agriopoma (Pitarella) chiraensis1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Architectonica chiraensis1 site
- Architectonica sullana1 site
- Artena1 site
- Aturia peruviana1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Borsonia peruviana1 site
- Carditamera1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Clavilithes1 site
- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana1 site
- Crassatella neorhynchus1 site
- Cypraea1 site
- Cypraedia (Eucypraedia) multicarinata1 site
- Ectinochilus gaudichaudi1 site
- Faunus (Pseudofaunus) chiraensis1 site
- Ficus chiraensis1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Haminoea1 site
- Helix1 site
- Knefastia chira1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chiraluta, 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
2 references- The Eocene Molluscan Fauna from the Degari Coal Field in Central Baluchistan, West Pakistan2
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Chiraluta 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 Chiraluta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chiraluta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVolutinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1931