Raphitoma

Raphitoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

Raphitoma

Credit:MNHN - Manuel CABALLER - 2015 Project:RECOLNAT · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RaphitomidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 164 occurrencesPaleocene — about 9 of 164 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 105 of 164 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 164 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 164 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 164 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 164 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 8 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 9 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 9 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 16 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 35 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

164 occurrences of Raphitoma on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

164 occurrences

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

32 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 31.76°N, 92.96°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WWeches — 30.60°N, 96.61°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.32°N, 86.00°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.45°N, 85.63°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.97°N, 87.86°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°ELisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.87°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WTuscahoma — 31.78°N, 87.42°WBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°ELillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°ECrockett — 31.40°N, 93.70°WWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°ERhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°EBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°EBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°W

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The named rock units Raphitoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Raphitoma and its relatives

Eocene

Where Raphitoma and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,333 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 97 sites for Raphitoma, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

36 references

Each of the 164 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Raphitoma

Credit
Credit:MNHN - Manuel CABALLER - 2015 Project:RECOLNAT
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRaphitomidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monterosato 1884)