Tiburnus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SkeneidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Skeneidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Skeneidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Skeneidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
32 occurrences of Tiburnus 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
32 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
7 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group14
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Weches Formation · Caliborne Group4
- Stone City Formation3
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Calcaire de Mons Formation2
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The named rock units Tiburnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tiburnus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tiburnus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
829 taxa- Architectonica18 sites
- Athleta petrosa18 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta18 sites
- Ficus17 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis17 sites
- Polinices17 sites
- Latirus moorei16 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata16 sites
- Ancilla staminea15 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)15 sites
- Pyramidella15 sites
- Turritella15 sites
- Buccitriton texanum14 sites
- Fusimitra14 sites
- Hastula14 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus14 sites
- Lapparia14 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis14 sites
- Michela trabeatoides14 sites
- Microdrillia14 sites
- Sinum14 sites
- Cadulus13 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni13 sites
- Clavilithes13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Tiburnus, 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
6 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals19
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda6
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Revision des Gastropoda du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique. I, Les Gastropoda du Calcaire de Mons2
- Marine Macro-Invertebrate Paleoenvirionmental Interpretation of the Harvey Site (Cook Mountain, Eocene) in North-Central Louisiana1
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
Each of the 32 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 Tiburnus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tiburnus 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.
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What may have been alongside itSkeneidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Gregorio 1890