Heliconoides nitens
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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 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Heliconoides nitens 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Humptulips Formation1
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The named rock units Heliconoides nitens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heliconoides nitens and its relatives
EoceneWhere Heliconoides nitens and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heliconoides nitens, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
2 references- First record of the Eocene pteropod Heliconoides nitens (Gastropoda: Thecosomata: Limacinidae) from the Pacific Basin1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Heliconoides nitens 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 Heliconoides nitens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliconoides nitens was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itHeliconoides through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lea 1833)