Protosurcula gabbii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtosurculaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
52 occurrences of Protosurcula gabbii 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
52 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
8 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group23
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group12
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group7
- Crockett Formation3
- Stone City Formation3
- Kosciusko Formation · Claiborne Group2
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The named rock units Protosurcula gabbii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protosurcula gabbii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Protosurcula gabbii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
681 taxa- Athleta petrosa41 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta39 sites
- Buccitriton texanum38 sites
- Ficus38 sites
- Latirus moorei37 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis37 sites
- Turritella34 sites
- Ancilla staminea33 sites
- Michela trabeatoides33 sites
- Pyramidella32 sites
- Polinices30 sites
- Hastula29 sites
- Microdrillia29 sites
- Sinum29 sites
- Cadulus28 sites
- Fusimitra27 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus26 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis26 sites
- Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana26 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni25 sites
- Gegania antiquata25 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)25 sites
- Trypanotoma25 sites
- Cochlespira engonata24 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Protosurcula gabbii, 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
7 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals28
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)14
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs3
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain1
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
Each of the 52 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 Protosurcula gabbii 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 Protosurcula gabbii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protosurcula gabbii 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 itProtosurcula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1865