Eopleurotoma

Eopleurotoma is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks currently unassigned to a family in the superfamily Conoidea, the turrids.

Eopleurotoma

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 240 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 21 of 240 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 205 of 240 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 240 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 240 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–60 Mya — about 6 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 7 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 9 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 9 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 9 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 16 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 16 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 16 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 35 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 59 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 20 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66 Mya23.04 Mya73 Mya15 Mya

240 occurrences of Eopleurotoma 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

240 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

53 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.65°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 31.24°N, 93.65°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.08°N, 1.17°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ESelsey — 51.08°N, 1.17°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WKosciusko — 32.17°N, 88.83°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.91°N, 87.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.97°N, 87.86°WAquia — 38.70°N, 76.97°WAquia — 38.58°N, 77.12°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WAquia — 38.35°N, 77.30°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EKeasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ESeguin — 30.23°N, 97.42°WSeguin — 30.33°N, 97.37°WSeguin — 30.18°N, 97.47°WSeguin — 30.26°N, 97.08°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°ECrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WWautubbee — 32.34°N, 89.14°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WYazoo — 31.63°N, 91.82°WWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°ESan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°W

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The named rock units Eopleurotoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eopleurotoma and its relatives

Eocene

Where Eopleurotoma and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,729 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 119 sites for Eopleurotoma, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

49 references

Each of the 240 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. 37 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 Eopleurotoma

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1889