Diastoma costellatum

Diastoma costellatum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiastomaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Eocene — about 9 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesOligocene49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.03 Mya33.9 Mya48.6 Mya26.8 Mya

10 occurrences of Diastoma costellatum 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

10 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

4 formations

Selsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WIlundain Marls — 42.77°N, 1.80°WArdanatz Sandstone — 42.80°N, 1.55°WVic-Igualada — 41.90°N, 2.20°E

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The named rock units Diastoma costellatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diastoma costellatum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Diastoma costellatum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

788 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Diastoma costellatum, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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 Diastoma costellatum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Diastoma costellatum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1804)