Euchelus (Herpetopoma)
Not Euchelus (Herpetopoma). This is Herpetopoma aspersum (R.A.Philippi, 1846), a relative — both are Chilodontaidae.
Adrian Gale · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- EuchelusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Euchelus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Euchelus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Euchelus
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
9 occurrences of Euchelus (Herpetopoma) on record. 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
9 occurrences- Miocene44%
- Pleistocene33%
- Holocene22%
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
- Dry Creek Sands Formation2
- Tamala Limestone Formation1
- Boat Cove Formation · Herald Group1
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The named rock units Euchelus (Herpetopoma) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
289 taxa- Cantharidus3 sites
- Clanculus3 sites
- Eucrassatella3 sites
- Macoma3 sites
- Rissoina3 sites
- Zeacumantus3 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Ancilla (Turrancilla)2 sites
- Antigona2 sites
- Astraea (Pomaulax) biangulata2 sites
- Astralium2 sites
- Austrohinnites polyaktinos2 sites
- Austromitra2 sites
- Bornia2 sites
- Cadulus yatalensis2 sites
- Callucina balcombica2 sites
- Calyptraea crassa2 sites
- Chemnitzia2 sites
- Cingula2 sites
- Closia2 sites
- Collonista2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina)2 sites
- Cylichna2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Euchelus (Herpetopoma), 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
4 references- Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands5
- The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. Part III - Scaphopoda, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda (Haliotidae-Tornidae)2
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands1
- The fossil Mollusca of the Peppermint Grove Limestone, Swan River district or Western Australia1
Each of the 9 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 Herpetopoma aspersum (R.A.Philippi, 1846)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Adrian Gale
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEuchelus through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pilsbry 1890)