Tympanotonos stroppus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TympanotonosPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Potamididae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Potamididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Potamididae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
4 occurrences of Tympanotonos stroppus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Tympanotonos stroppus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tympanotonos stroppus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Tympanotonos stroppus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Ampullina2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Chama2 sites
- Cryptoconus2 sites
- Spondylus2 sites
- Agonidarum sudans1 site
- Akera1 site
- Alectryonia martinsi1 site
- Ampullinopsis1 site
- Ampullinopsis crassatina1 site
- Amusium1 site
- Ancilla1 site
- Arca1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Aseraggodes laganum1 site
- Athleta1 site
- Athleta (Volutospina) subambigua1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Borsonia1 site
- Cantharus1 site
- Capulus1 site
- Cassis1 site
- Cerithium calculosum1 site
- Chlamys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tympanotonos stroppus, 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
3 references- Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran)2
- Fossil cuttlebones in the Vicentinian Priabonian (Late Eocene, Veneto Region, NE Italy)1
- Significato paleoecologico di una malacofauna eocenica superiore della Marna di Possagno (Trevigiano, Italia NE) nell'ambito delle faune bentoniche dell Tetide1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Tympanotonos stroppus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tympanotonos stroppus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tympanotonos stroppus 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 itTympanotonos through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1823)