Clavilithes parisiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClavilithesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
17 occurrences of Clavilithes parisiensis 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
17 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
5 formations
- Banc à verrins Formation3
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- London Clay Formation1
- Ilundain Marls Formation1
- Ardanatz Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Clavilithes parisiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Clavilithes parisiensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Clavilithes parisiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
531 taxa- Crommium intermedia9 sites
- Tympanotonos9 sites
- Melanopsis ancillaroides7 sites
- Sigmesalia fasciata7 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Benoistia5 sites
- Bittium5 sites
- Caryocorbula striata5 sites
- Costacallista laevigata5 sites
- Elliptotellina tellinella5 sites
- Eopleurotoma5 sites
- Gantechinobathra5 sites
- Nipteraxis5 sites
- Olividae5 sites
- Rimella fissurella5 sites
- Turridae5 sites
- Volutilithes5 sites
- Zaria5 sites
- Acteon4 sites
- Barbatia4 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina4 sites
- Crassatella4 sites
- Cubitostrea multicostata4 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Clavilithes parisiensis, 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
5 references- Depositional dynamics and the record of ecosystem stability: early Eocene faunal gradients in the Pyrenean foreland, Spain9
- The molluscs of the “Falunière” of Grignon (Middle Lutetian, Yvelines, France): quantification of lithification bias and its impact on the biodiversity assessment of the Middle Eocene of Western Europe3
- Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene strata of the Pamplona Basin and surrounding areas (Navarre, western Pyrenees)2
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex2
- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire1
Each of the 17 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 Clavilithes parisiensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Clavilithes parisiensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itClavilithes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mayer-Eymar 1877)