Megatylotus
No picture of Megatylotus 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 Megatylotus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmpullinidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
10 occurrences of Megatylotus on record. 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 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Megatylotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Cyrena (Cyrena) convexa vapincana5 sites
- Tympanotonos trochleare diaboli5 sites
- Cardium4 sites
- Cyrena4 sites
- Diastoma costellatum martini4 sites
- Panope (Panope)4 sites
- Peyrotia interposita4 sites
- Pitar3 sites
- Babylonia (Peridipsaccus)2 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata2 sites
- Faunus2 sites
- Thericium2 sites
- Ampullina vulcani vapincana1 site
- Angaria1 site
- Bittium1 site
- Bulimus1 site
- Cantharus (Cantharus)1 site
- Characeae1 site
- Crocodylidae1 site
- Cyrena (Cyrena) brongniarti meraensis n. ssp.1 site
- Cyrena (Cyrena) convexa bolyaiana n. ssp.1 site
- Gari1 site
- Glossus (Miocardiopsis)1 site
- Limopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Megatylotus, 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- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]7
- Über eine Eocänfaunula von Ostbosnien und einige Eocänfossilien der Herzegowina2
- Sur quelques fossiles des lignites de Binisalem (Majorque) recueillis par M. Darder Pericas1
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
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No picture of Megatylotus 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 Megatylotus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megatylotus 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.
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What may have been alongside itAmpullinidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer 1885)