Glyptoactis alticostata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlyptoactisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Glyptoactis
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Glyptoactis
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glyptoactis
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
10 occurrences of Glyptoactis alticostata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Santee Limestone Formation3
- McBean Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group1
- Hatchetigbee Formation · Wilcox Group1
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Glyptoactis alticostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glyptoactis alticostata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Glyptoactis alticostata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Plicatula filamentosa4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta3 sites
- Cheilea3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Clavilithes3 sites
- Martinetta palmeri3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Nucula3 sites
- Pholadomya3 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis2 sites
- Alectryonia ludoviciana2 sites
- Altrix2 sites
- Athleta2 sites
- Atrina2 sites
- Cadulus2 sites
- Calorhadia (Calorhadia) pharcida2 sites
- Caricella2 sites
- Chama monroensis2 sites
- Chlamys choctavensis2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Crassatella texalta2 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Glyptoactis alticostata, 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
6 references- New molluscan faunas from the Eocene of South Carolina3
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda2
- Pelecypoda of the St. Maurice and Claiborne stages2
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain1
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
- The Midway Group of Texas1
Each of the 10 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 Glyptoactis alticostata 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 Glyptoactis alticostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glyptoactis alticostata 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 itGlyptoactis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1833