Levifusus mortonii
No picture of Levifusus mortonii 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 Levifusus mortonii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LevifususPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
- 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.
17 occurrences of Levifusus mortonii 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
17 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
5 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group7
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group6
- McBean Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Kosciusko Formation1
- Wautubbee Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Levifusus mortonii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Levifusus mortonii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Levifusus mortonii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
513 taxa- Athleta petrosa13 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus13 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda13 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella12 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta12 sites
- Ancilla staminea11 sites
- Bullata semen11 sites
- Crepidula lirata11 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina11 sites
- Mesalia vetusta11 sites
- Retusa galba11 sites
- Buccitriton texanum10 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta10 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis10 sites
- Eopleurotoma10 sites
- Ficus10 sites
- Turritella10 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata9 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella9 sites
- Gegania antiquata9 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) magnifica9 sites
- Sinum declive9 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata8 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Levifusus mortonii, 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- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)6
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama3
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
Each of the 17 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 Levifusus mortonii 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 Levifusus mortonii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Levifusus mortonii 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 itLevifusus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.