Telescopium

Telescopium is a genus of cone-shaped sea snails in the family Potamididae.

Telescopium

Metamorphosed Fossil · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
PotamididaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Potamididae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Potamididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Potamididae
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 27 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 27 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 27 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Telescopium 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

27 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

15 formations

Upper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°ESuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WNanggulan — 7.48°S, 110.05°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°ECarbonera — 6.80°N, 73.58°WCilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ETartaro — 15.15°N, 121.01°EYoshino — 35.10°N, 134.19°ESaman — 4.84°S, 80.77°WParinas — 4.68°S, 81.33°WOrizzonte di Ronca — 45.48°N, 11.28°E

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The named rock units Telescopium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Telescopium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Telescopium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

642 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Telescopium, 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

15 references

Each of the 27 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. 3 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 Telescopium

Credit
Metamorphosed Fossil
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Telescopium 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.

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monfort 1810)