Clavus

Clavus is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.

Clavus

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
DrilliidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 27 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Clavus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

27 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

10 formations

Gelingseh — 0.98°N, 117.97°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ENagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°ECowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WNyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°EMalua — 16.25°S, 167.50°ENavidad — 33.93°S, 71.85°WPakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°ETukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°W

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The named rock units Clavus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clavus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Clavus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

923 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Clavus, 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

16 references

Each of the 27 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. 4 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

Media content2

Picture of Clavus

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Porites compressa clavus

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itDrilliidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monfort 1810)