Heteroterma

Heteroterma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TudiclidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 52 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 43 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 37 of 43 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesEocene84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 6 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 5 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya56 Mya84.2 Mya51.4 Mya

43 occurrences of Heteroterma on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

43 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

16 formations

Lefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WSanta Susana — 34.05°N, 118.63°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.71°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.71°WCerro Dorotea — 51.58°S, 72.33°WCerro Dorotea — 51.54°S, 72.34°WKauru — 45.06°S, 170.73°EKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°EKauru — 45.05°S, 170.77°ELodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.61°WWangaloa — 46.20°S, 169.92°ERed Bluff Tuff — 43.97°S, 176.59°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WPigeon Point — 37.19°N, 122.40°WSimi — 34.26°N, 118.72°WLaguna Seca — 36.91°N, 120.83°WSan Francisquito — 34.62°N, 118.62°WEl Piojo — 35.73°N, 120.93°W

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The named rock units Heteroterma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Heteroterma and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Heteroterma and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

334 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Heteroterma, 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

17 references

Each of the 43 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. 5 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 Heteroterma

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Gabb 1869