Eatoniella
Eatoniella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eatoniellidae, the eatoniellids.
H. Suter · 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
- EatoniellidaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 18.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 21.7 Mya to 0 Mya.
13 occurrences of Eatoniella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
13 occurrences- Miocene31%
- Pleistocene62%
- Holocene8%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Eatoniella 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.
Eatoniella and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Eatoniella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
264 taxa- Capulus7 sites
- Onoba7 sites
- Trochidae7 sites
- Cellarinella5 sites
- Paracellaria5 sites
- Prosipho5 sites
- Eumetula4 sites
- Hornera4 sites
- Leptocollonia innocens4 sites
- Lissarca4 sites
- Lissotesta4 sites
- Paralaeospira4 sites
- Philobrya sublaevis4 sites
- Swanomia4 sites
- Adacnarca3 sites
- Adamussium3 sites
- Cyclocardia3 sites
- Iothia3 sites
- Limatula3 sites
- Polirhabdotos3 sites
- ? Trypticocirrus sp.2 sites
- Cellaria2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Cyamocardium denticulatum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Eatoniella, 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- Pleistocene macrofossils from CRP-1 Drillhole, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica8
- The Molluscan Faunule at Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara. No.22
- Diversity and Paleoecology of Miocene Coral-Associated Mollusks from East Kalimantan (Indonesia)1
- Quaternary molluscan faunas from the island of Tierra de Fuega after the Last Glacial Maximum1
- The molluscan faunule at Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara - No. 11
Each of the 13 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 Eatoniella
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- H. Suter
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eatoniella 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Eatoniella”
- 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 itEatoniellidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1876