Euspira heros

Euspira heros

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
EuspiraPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Euspira
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Euspira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Euspira
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 60 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 60 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 60 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 60 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

60 occurrences of Euspira heros on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

60 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

15 formations

Yorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.21°N, 76.69°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.63°N, 76.51°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 39.36°N, 74.42°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WKirkwood — 39.47°N, 75.35°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WSt Mary's — 38.36°N, 76.39°WSt Mary's — 37.66°N, 76.75°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WCoatzacoalcos — 18.14°N, 94.41°WEastover — 37.10°N, 76.39°WSt Marys — 38.36°N, 76.39°WSaxicava Clay — 49.58°N, 57.93°WGardiners Clay — 40.98°N, 72.32°W

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The named rock units Euspira heros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euspira heros and its relatives

Miocene

Where Euspira heros and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

589 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Euspira heros, 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

14 references

Each of the 60 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. 2 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 Euspira heros

Credit
Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euspira heros 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)