Chiraluta inca

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChiralutaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Chiraluta inca 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Chiraluta inca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chiraluta inca and its relatives
EoceneWhere Chiraluta inca and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- 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
- 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
- Knefastia chira1 site
- Lamelliconcha ayabaca1 site
- Lucina inca1 site
- Lunatia chulucana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chiraluta inca, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Chiraluta inca
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itChiraluta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1931