Spirocrypta inornata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpirocryptaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calyptraeoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calyptraeoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Calyptraeoidea
- 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 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
7 occurrences of Spirocrypta inornata 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Spirocrypta inornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spirocrypta inornata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Spirocrypta inornata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Acutostrea idriaensis5 sites
- Loxotrema turritum4 sites
- Neotrapezium californicum4 sites
- Potamides (Potamidopsis) californica4 sites
- Tellina (Angulus) joaquinensis4 sites
- Pelecyora aequilateralis3 sites
- Pyrgulifera lajollaensis3 sites
- Tellina (Angulus) domenginensis3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei2 sites
- Crommium andersoni2 sites
- Cuneocorbula torreyensis2 sites
- Melanatria markleyensis2 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa2 sites
- Tympanotonos (Tympanotonos) californicus2 sites
- Acesta1 site
- Anomia mcgoniglensis1 site
- Aturia1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Barbatia landesi1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) dichotomus1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Chama grunskyi1 site
- Corbicula jestesi1 site
- Dacridium penjicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Spirocrypta inornata, 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
4 references- Middle Eocene brackish-marine mollusks from the Matilija Sandstone at Matilija Hot Springs, Ventura County, Southern California4
- Stratigraphy and Mollusks of Lower Paleogene of the Kamchatka Peninsula and Climatic Features1
- Patellogastropods (Mollusca) from the Eocene Tejon Formation of southern California1
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California1
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
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No picture of Spirocrypta inornata 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 Spirocrypta inornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spirocrypta inornata 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 itSpirocrypta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dickerson 1916)