Dolicholatirus
Dolicholatirus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Dolicholatiridae.

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
- DolicholatiridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 93 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 129 ka.
68 occurrences of Dolicholatirus 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
68 occurrencesThese 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
26 formations
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group14
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group9
- Providence Formation4
- Byram Formation4
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group4
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group4
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The named rock units Dolicholatirus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dolicholatirus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dolicholatirus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,424 taxa- Clavilithes14 sites
- Turritella14 sites
- Acteon13 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)13 sites
- Levifusus13 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta11 sites
- Cochlespira11 sites
- Dentalium11 sites
- Microdrillia11 sites
- Pleurofusia11 sites
- Cadulus10 sites
- Conus10 sites
- Corbula10 sites
- Glycymeris10 sites
- Latirus10 sites
- Pitar10 sites
- Raphitoma10 sites
- Sinum10 sites
- Surculoma10 sites
- Architectonica9 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum9 sites
- Athleta petrosa9 sites
- Euspira9 sites
- Ficus9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Dolicholatirus, 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
23 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals16
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda16
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain6
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area5
- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi4
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf3
- A catalogue of Danian gastropods from the Baunekule facies, Faxe Formation, Denmark2
- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Commets on the Badenian Fauna (Middle Miocene) from Bahna (Southern Carpathians, Romania)1
- Sedimentology of rocky shorelines: 4. Coarse gravel lithofacies, molluscan biofacies, and the stratigraphic and eustatic records in the type area of the Pleistocene Hulopoe Gravel, Lanai, Hawaii1
- Kasaba Miyosen havzasinin Gastropoda faunasi (Bati Toroslar, GB Türkiye)1
- Antalya Miyosen havzasının Gastropoda faunası (Batı-Orta Toroslar, GB Türkiye)1
Each of the 68 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. 11 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 content1
Picture of Dolicholatirus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dolicholatirus 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDolicholatiridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bellardi 1884)