Monitilora elegans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonitiloraPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
12 occurrences of Monitilora elegans 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
12 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
9 formations
- Barton Beds Formation2
- Earnley Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- Sables a Nummulites variolarius Formation1
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- Bracklesham Beds Formation1
- Maldegem Formation1
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The named rock units Monitilora elegans 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.
Monitilora elegans and its relatives
EoceneWhere Monitilora elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
825 taxa- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata9 sites
- Corbula9 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica9 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta8 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum8 sites
- Gibbolucina gibbosula7 sites
- Clavilithes6 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata6 sites
- Spirancilla buccinoides6 sites
- Stirpulina coronata6 sites
- Venericor planicosta6 sites
- Yoldiella galeottiana6 sites
- Ancilla canalifera5 sites
- Caestocorbula5 sites
- Callocardia (Nitidavenus) nitidula5 sites
- Caryocorbula striata5 sites
- Corbula (Varicorbula)5 sites
- Crassatella5 sites
- Cryptochorda stromboides5 sites
- Cylichna5 sites
- Dentalium5 sites
- Gigantostrea gigantica5 sites
- Keilostoma5 sites
- Natica5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Monitilora elegans, 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
8 references- Les Bivalves et Gastéropodes du Bruxellien inférieur de la Belgique (Eocène moyen)4
- The Upper Eocene, comprising the Barton and Upper Bagshot Formations2
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex1
- Fossils from the Bracklesham Group exposed in the M27 Motorway excavations, Southampton, Hampshire1
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)1
- Karagyuleva, 19641
- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques1
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire1
Each of the 12 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
Media content0
No picture of Monitilora elegans 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 Monitilora elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Monitilora elegans 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 itMonitilora through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Defrance 1823)