Tritonidea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BuccinidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 56 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.
26 occurrences of Tritonidea 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
26 occurrences- Paleocene31%
- Eocene35%
- Miocene27%
- Pleistocene8%
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
10 formations
- Pirabas Formation4
- Kama Formation3
- Marthaville Formation · Wilcox Group3
- Lellinge Greensand Formation2
- Blackheath Beds Formation2
- Pendleton Ferry Formation · Wilcox Group2
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The named rock units Tritonidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tritonidea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tritonidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,079 taxa- Glycymeris8 sites
- Cerithium7 sites
- Tellina7 sites
- Bittium6 sites
- Lunatia6 sites
- Ostrea6 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Barbatia5 sites
- Bayania5 sites
- Corbula5 sites
- Fusus5 sites
- Modiolus5 sites
- Venericardia5 sites
- Architectonica4 sites
- Chama4 sites
- Colubraria4 sites
- Crommium intermedia4 sites
- Gantechinobathra4 sites
- Mitra4 sites
- Murex4 sites
- Olivella4 sites
- Sigmesalia fasciata4 sites
- Turricula4 sites
- Tympanotonos4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Tritonidea, 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
13 references- Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana5
- Depositional dynamics and the record of ecosystem stability: early Eocene faunal gradients in the Pyrenean foreland, Spain4
- Indian Tertiary Gastropoda, No. 5, Fusidae, Turbinellidae, Chrysodomidae, Strepturidae, Buccinidae, Nassidae, Columbellidae, with a short diagnoses of new species by the late E. Vredenburg3
- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)2
- The Selandian (Paleocene) mollusc fauna from Copenhagen, Denmark: the Poul Harder 1920 collection2
- The Lower Eocene Mollusca of Abbey Wood and of High Halstow2
- Fosseis Terciarios Do Brazil2
- Taxonomy, Distribution, and Characters of Pre-Oligocene Members of the Cantharus Group of Pisaniinae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea)1
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Ewekoro Formation (Paleocene) of Southwestern Nigeria1
- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques1
- Geologische und paläontologische Bearbeitung der Kreide und des Tertiärs im östlichen Rupertiwinkel, nördlich von Salzburg [Geological and paleontological work on the Cretaceous and Tertiary of the eastern Ruperti region, north of Salzburg]1
- A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic1
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. 1 further reference is 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 Tritonidea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tritonidea 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 itBuccinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1842