Tornatellaea simulata

Tornatellaea simulata

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesOligocene57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya33.9 Mya56.6 Mya26.7 Mya

11 occurrences of Tornatellaea simulata 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

11 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

6 formations

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ENeerrepen Sands — 50.78°N, 5.47°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WMarna di Possagno — 46.16°N, 13.37°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°E

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The named rock units Tornatellaea simulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tornatellaea simulata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Tornatellaea simulata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,017 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Tornatellaea simulata, 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

10 references

Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Tornatellaea simulata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tornatellaea simulata 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 itTornatellaea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Solander 1766)