Coptostoma

Coptostoma

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 36 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 36 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 30 of 36 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 36 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 14 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 8 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61.66 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya11 Mya

36 occurrences of Coptostoma 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

36 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

15 formations

Cook 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°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WDrazinda — 29.95°N, 70.12°EDrazinda — 30.42°N, 70.51°EAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WYegua — 30.36°N, 96.82°WYazoo Clay — 31.78°N, 92.49°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WMoodys Branch — 31.60°N, 92.80°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°W

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The named rock units Coptostoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Coptostoma and its relatives

Eocene

Where Coptostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Coptostoma, 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

11 references

Each of the 36 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 Coptostoma

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Coptostoma 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1899)