Heliconoides hospes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeliconoidesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Limacinidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Limacinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Limacinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Heliconoides hospes on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
4 formations
- Kishima Formation · Kishima Group3
- Marnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe Formation2
- Falun de St. Paul-les-Dax Formation1
- Falun d'Escornebeou et Sainte Paul-les-Dax Formation1
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The named rock units Heliconoides hospes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heliconoides hospes and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Heliconoides hospes and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Heliconoides linneensis5 sites
- Lacazella mediterranea4 sites
- Megathiris detruncata4 sites
- Spoelia4 sites
- Argyrotheca bitnerae3 sites
- Joania cordata3 sites
- Limacina conica3 sites
- Clio2 sites
- Creseis2 sites
- Creseis kishimaensis2 sites
- Creseis spina2 sites
- Cuvierinidae2 sites
- Joania peyrerensis2 sites
- Limacina2 sites
- Limacina karasawai2 sites
- Praerosaria herosae2 sites
- Ransonia ferruginosa2 sites
- Styliola subula2 sites
- Terebratulina retusa2 sites
- ? Eopheurotoma aff. higoensis1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) nagaoi1 site
- Alvania argillensis1 site
- Alvania aturensis1 site
- Alvania discazalorum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Heliconoides hospes, 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
3 references- Eocene to Miocene holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwest France7
- Oligocene pteropods (Gastropoda: Thecosomata) from the Kishima Formation, Saga Prefecture, southwest Japan2
- An Early Oligocene fish-fauna from Japan reconstructed from otoliths1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Heliconoides hospes
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Heliconoides hospes 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHeliconoides through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rolle 1861)