Glyptozaria
Glyptozaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae.
E.R. Waite · CC BY 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
- TurritellopsinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 36 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
7 occurrences of Glyptozaria on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
7 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
4 formations
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Dry Creek Sands Formation2
- Werillup Formation · Plantagenet Group1
- Pallinup Formation1
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The named rock units Glyptozaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glyptozaria and its relatives
EoceneWhere Glyptozaria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
445 taxa- Mitrella6 sites
- Acteon5 sites
- Tubiola5 sites
- Hastula4 sites
- Melanella4 sites
- Retusa4 sites
- Syrnola4 sites
- Volvulella4 sites
- Admetula3 sites
- Alveinus minutus3 sites
- Amaea3 sites
- Amaurellina3 sites
- Amusium3 sites
- Anodontia3 sites
- Antillophos3 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)3 sites
- Bathyarca3 sites
- Bathytoma nonplicata3 sites
- Cadulus3 sites
- Cardiomya3 sites
- Chama3 sites
- Clavilithes3 sites
- Cochlodesma3 sites
- Colwellia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Glyptozaria, 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- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia2
- The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. Part IV - Gastropoda (Turritellidae-Struthiolariidae)2
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas1
Each of the 7 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 Glyptozaria
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- E.R. Waite
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Glyptozaria”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTurritellopsinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1924