Epitonium greenlandicum
No picture of Epitonium greenlandicum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 greenlandicum, 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 least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Epitonium greenlandicum 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene60%
- Holocene20%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Epitonium greenlandicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epitonium greenlandicum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Epitonium greenlandicum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Mya (Arenomya) arenaria4 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) cobboldae3 sites
- Astarte sulcata3 sites
- Buccinum undatum3 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) balthica3 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata3 sites
- Mytilus edulis3 sites
- Propebela turricula3 sites
- Turritella communis3 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis2 sites
- Arctica islandica2 sites
- Astarte borealis2 sites
- Astarte compressa2 sites
- Astarte elliptica2 sites
- Astarte mutabilis2 sites
- Boreotrophon clathratus2 sites
- Cancellaria costellifera2 sites
- Clausinella fasciata2 sites
- Curtitoma reticulata2 sites
- Fusus antiquus2 sites
- Hiatella2 sites
- Hiatella arctica2 sites
- Leda caudata2 sites
- Lucinella divaricata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Epitonium greenlandicum, 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- Wood, 18483
- Brown bear (Ursus arctos) (9880 ± 35 BP) from late-glacial Champlain Sea deposits at Saint-Nicolas, Quebec, Canada, and the dispersal history of brown bears1
- Marine paleoclimatology and paleoecology of a Pleistocene invertebrate fauna from Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska1
Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Epitonium greenlandicum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 greenlandicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epitonium greenlandicum 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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What may have been alongside itEpitonium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perry 1811)