Sthenorytis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpitoniidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
26 occurrences of Sthenorytis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
26 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
12 formations
- Grand Bay Formation6
- Onzole Formation5
- Carriacou Formation3
- Termofourà Formation3
- Red Bluff Formation1
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Sthenorytis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sthenorytis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sthenorytis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
786 taxa- Conus8 sites
- Calliostoma5 sites
- Ostrea5 sites
- Xenophora5 sites
- Cantharus4 sites
- Ficus4 sites
- Turricula4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Anomia ephippium3 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Capulus3 sites
- Chama3 sites
- Chicoreus3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Cymatophos glareosus3 sites
- Ficus carriacouensis3 sites
- Fissidentalium3 sites
- Galeodea3 sites
- Gemmula3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Hexaplex3 sites
- Latirus3 sites
- Nodipecten3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Sthenorytis, 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
12 references- Fossil mollusks from Carriacou, West Indies9
- Pliocene Epitoniidae of the Esmeraldas beds northwestern Ecuador (Mollusca: Gastropoda)5
- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement3
- New gastropod records from the Cenozoic of Hungary1
- A parautochthonous shallow marine fauna from the Late Burdigalian (early Ottnangian) of Gurlarn (Lower Bavaria, SE Germany): Macrofaunal inventory and paleoecology1
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama1
- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi1
- Molluscan paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Lower Miocene upper part of the Lincoln Creek Formation in southwestern Washington1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- Olsson, 19641
- Notes on the Geology of the Island of Antigua1
- An addition to the vertebrate fauna of the Miocene period, with a synopsis of the extinct Cetacea of the United States1
Each of the 26 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 content1

Picture of Sthenorytis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dall, William Healey
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sthenorytis 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 itEpitoniidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1862)