Epitonium faearium
No picture of Epitonium faearium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Epitonium faearium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpitoniumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Epitonium
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Epitonium faearium on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Coffee Sand Formation · Selma Group3
- Mexcala Formation1
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The named rock units Epitonium faearium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Epitonium faearium and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Epitonium faearium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Euspira rectilabrum4 sites
- Granosolarium coffea4 sites
- Turritella trilira4 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) paucispirilus3 sites
- Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) tuberculosus3 sites
- Cerithiella aequalirata3 sites
- Gyrodes major3 sites
- Laxispira lumbricalis3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Sassia carlea3 sites
- Trichotropis squamosa3 sites
- Turritella quadrilira3 sites
- Tympanotonus (Exechocirsus) cowickeensis3 sites
- Urceolabrum mantachieensis3 sites
- Agerostrea falcata2 sites
- Amuletum costatum2 sites
- Amuletum fasciolatum2 sites
- Anchura2 sites
- Anomia argentaria2 sites
- Aphrodina2 sites
- Ascaulocardium armatum2 sites
- Barbatia carolinensis2 sites
- Bellifusus curvicostatus2 sites
- Belliscala2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Epitonium faearium, 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
3 references- Changes in Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary benthic marine assemblages: analyses from the North American coastal plain shallow-shelf2
- Early Maastrictian mollusca from the Mexcala formation of the state of Guererro, southern Mexico1
- The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Epitonium faearium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Epitonium faearium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epitonium faearium was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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What may have been alongside itEpitonium through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dockery 1993