Palaeorhaphis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FasciolariinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
7 occurrences of Palaeorhaphis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
7 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
4 formations
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group4
- Seguin Formation1
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group1
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Palaeorhaphis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeorhaphis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Palaeorhaphis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
231 taxa- Caryocorbula3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Eoancilla3 sites
- Eopleurotoma3 sites
- Latirus3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Ringicula3 sites
- Solariorbis3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)2 sites
- Calorhadia2 sites
- Caveola2 sites
- Cochliolepis (Tylaxis)2 sites
- Cochlodesma2 sites
- Corbula (Notocorbula)2 sites
- Cylichna (Cylichnopsis)2 sites
- Fustiaria2 sites
- Kapalmerella mortoni2 sites
- Levifusus pagodiformis2 sites
- Lirofusus2 sites
- Metula2 sites
- Mnestia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Palaeorhaphis, 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- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda4
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Seguin Formation (Upper Paleocene) in Central Texas1
Each of the 7 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 Palaeorhaphis 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 Palaeorhaphis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeorhaphis 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 itFasciolariinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stewart 1927