Editharus polygonus
Vasseur, Gaston · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- EditharusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Editharus polygonus 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Editharus polygonus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Editharus polygonus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
392 taxa- Haustator imbricataria3 sites
- Amaurellina spirata2 sites
- Ampullaria canaliculata2 sites
- Ampullaria depressa2 sites
- Ampullaria patula2 sites
- Ampullaria sigaretina2 sites
- Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara2 sites
- Auricula ringens2 sites
- Auricula sulcata2 sites
- Bulla cylindrica2 sites
- Cepatia cepacea2 sites
- Cerithium cristatum2 sites
- Cerithium interruptum2 sites
- Cerithium muricoides2 sites
- Cerithium subulatum2 sites
- Cerithium unisulcatum2 sites
- Chiton grignionensis2 sites
- Clavilithes noae2 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina2 sites
- Cyclostoma mumia2 sites
- Diastoma costellatum2 sites
- Fusus excisus2 sites
- Fusus scalaroides2 sites
- Fusus subulatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Editharus polygonus, 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
2 references- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris2
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Editharus polygonus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Vasseur, Gaston
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Editharus polygonus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEditharus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1803)