Obtortio
No picture of Obtortio was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Obtortio, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiastomatidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
19 occurrences of Obtortio on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
19 occurrences- Miocene53%
- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene16%
- Holocene16%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Obtortio has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Obtortio and its relatives
MioceneWhere Obtortio and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Circe3 sites
- Elachorbis3 sites
- Arca trapezia2 sites
- Callista planatella2 sites
- Circe (Circe) scripta2 sites
- Dendostrea folium2 sites
- Diala lauta2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Dosinia sculpta2 sites
- Fragum2 sites
- Fragum erugatum2 sites
- Mactra2 sites
- Marcia2 sites
- Megacardita incrassata2 sites
- Monilea callifera2 sites
- Pyrene scripta2 sites
- Rhinoclavis bituberculata2 sites
- Strombus (Euprotomus) vomer iredalei2 sites
- Tapes dorsatus2 sites
- Turbo (Marmarostoma) intercostalis2 sites
- Acrosterigma reeveanum1 site
- Agatha1 site
- Alabra fragilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Obtortio, 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- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Turritellidae through Strombidae)10
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel4
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia2
- Evolution of Organogenic Carbonate Buildups in the Middle through Late Miocene of the Euxine–Caspian Basin (Eastern Paratethys)1
- New Marine Gastropods from the Tarkhan-Konka of Eastern Paratethys1
- Middle Holocene marine molluscs near Guildford, Western Australia, and evidence for climate change1
Each of the 19 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 Obtortio was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Obtortio, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Obtortio 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDiastomatidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hedley 1899