Trypanotoma

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
69 occurrences of Trypanotoma 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
69 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
13 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group35
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group10
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Yegua Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group3
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The named rock units Trypanotoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trypanotoma and its relatives
EoceneWhere Trypanotoma and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
727 taxa- Ficus37 sites
- Turritella36 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta35 sites
- Athleta petrosa34 sites
- Cadulus34 sites
- Buccitriton texanum32 sites
- Latirus moorei32 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis31 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)30 sites
- Microdrillia30 sites
- Pyramidella29 sites
- Sinum28 sites
- Ancilla staminea27 sites
- Bonellitia27 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii25 sites
- Architectonica24 sites
- Bullata semen24 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta24 sites
- Raphitoma24 sites
- Eopleurotoma23 sites
- Fusimitra23 sites
- Hastula23 sites
- Hipponix23 sites
- Michela trabeatoides23 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Trypanotoma, 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
9 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals35
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)16
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda11
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area2
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain1
- Marine Macro-Invertebrate Paleoenvirionmental Interpretation of the Harvey Site (Cook Mountain, Eocene) in North-Central Louisiana1
- Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda1
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California1
Each of the 69 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 Trypanotoma
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trypanotoma 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 itTurridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.