Eosurcula moorei

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EosurculaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
53 occurrences of Eosurcula moorei 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
53 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.
Found in
7 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group18
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group15
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group6
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Kosciusko Formation · Claiborne Group2
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The named rock units Eosurcula moorei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eosurcula moorei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eosurcula moorei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
733 taxa- Ficus38 sites
- Turritella37 sites
- Ancilla staminea35 sites
- Athleta petrosa35 sites
- Cadulus34 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta34 sites
- Buccitriton texanum31 sites
- Sinum30 sites
- Pyramidella29 sites
- Hastula28 sites
- Latirus moorei28 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis28 sites
- Michela trabeatoides28 sites
- Microdrillia28 sites
- Gegania antiquata26 sites
- Acteon25 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)25 sites
- Polinices25 sites
- Ringicula trapaquara25 sites
- Surculoma25 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus24 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii24 sites
- Venericardia (Venericor) densata24 sites
- Raphitoma23 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Eosurcula moorei, 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
8 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals24
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)12
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda7
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas3
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region3
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area2
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs1
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)1
Each of the 53 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 Eosurcula moorei
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eosurcula moorei 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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Everything alive alongside itEosurcula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1860