Euchelus

Euchelus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chilodontaidae.

Euchelus

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
EucyclidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
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 1 of 33 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 33 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Euchelus 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

33 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

12 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°EToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EGelingseh — 0.98°N, 117.97°ETamala Limestone — 32.04°S, 115.76°EDampier Limestone — 25.53°S, 113.48°ELower Gelingseh — 1.50°N, 116.50°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°EBoat Cove — 29.28°S, 177.85°WTajima — 30.67°N, 131.00°EAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°E

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The named rock units Euchelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euchelus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Euchelus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Euchelus, 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

18 references

Each of the 33 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. 6 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 Euchelus

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euchelus 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.

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 itEucyclidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Philippi 1847