Epitonium

Epitonium is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. Epitonium is the type genus of the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.

Epitonium

Steve Jurvetson · CC BY 2.0 · 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
EpitoniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 871 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 871 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 59 of 871 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 125 of 871 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 871 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 155 of 871 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 165 of 871 occurrencesPleistocene — about 305 of 871 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 6 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 9 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 19 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 29 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 12 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 13 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 19 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 50 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 29 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 12 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 22 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 61 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 40 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 59 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 461 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

871 occurrences of Epitonium 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

871 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

183 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 32.70°N, 117.19°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.78°N, 118.30°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EEntrerriense — 42.25°S, 64.08°WEntrerriense — 42.17°S, 64.08°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.32°N, 118.68°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.54°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes — 33.81°N, 118.29°WCook Mountain — 31.88°N, 88.32°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WSan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WSan Pedro — 33.74°N, 118.29°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WChoptank — 38.73°N, 76.02°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°W

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The named rock units Epitonium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 159 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 165 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epitonium and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Epitonium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,388 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 399 sites for Epitonium, and this reads 240 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

222 references

Each of the 871 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. 210 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 content3

Picture of Epitonium

Credit
Steve Jurvetson
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Epitonium scalare · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:169159-Mollusca

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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.

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What may have been alongside itEpitoniidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bolten 1798