Clavilithes

Clavilithes is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the tulip snails and spindle snails.

Clavilithes

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FusininaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 307 occurrencesPaleocene — about 20 of 307 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 269 of 307 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 307 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 307 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 307 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 10 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 12 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 12 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 12 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 19 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 20 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 20 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 55 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 84 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 15 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 11 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.3–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61.66 Mya11.63 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

307 occurrences of Clavilithes on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

307 occurrences

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

66 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 31.26°N, 93.82°WCook Mountain — 30.00°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 97.22°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCook Mountain — 31.96°N, 95.27°WCook Mountain — 31.32°N, 95.46°WCook Mountain — 30.97°N, 96.11°WCook Mountain — 30.86°N, 96.36°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.65°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.50°N, 87.80°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.03°N, 92.02°WMoodys Branch — 31.86°N, 88.70°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.00°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 33.82°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 31.30°N, 96.04°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WJuncal — 34.78°N, 119.15°WJuncal — 34.47°N, 119.02°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.71°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.74°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.76°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°WShark River — 40.43°N, 74.10°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.83°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.15°N, 88.02°WSaman — 4.74°S, 81.30°WYazoo Clay — 32.04°N, 92.02°WYazoo Clay — 31.78°N, 92.49°WPromina — 43.95°N, 16.07°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°EBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EBateque — 26.67°N, 112.94°WBateque — 26.50°N, 112.73°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EBecton — 50.74°N, 1.69°W

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The named rock units Clavilithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clavilithes and its relatives

Eocene

Where Clavilithes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,670 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 153 sites for Clavilithes, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

68 references

Each of the 307 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. 56 further references are not listed. 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

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Picture of Clavilithes

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H. Zell
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3D model

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Sketchfab
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The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itFusininae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)