Afrocominella capensis
Afrocominella capensis, common name the elongate whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc unassigned in the superfamily Buccinoidea.SubspeciesAfrocominella capensis capensis (Dunker in Philippi, 1844) Afrocominella capensis simoniana (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Afrocominella capensis on record. 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 occurrences- Pliocene75%
- Pleistocene25%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Afrocominella capensis 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.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Amblychilepas scutellum4 sites
- Buccinum digitale4 sites
- Burnupena4 sites
- Conus4 sites
- Fissurella4 sites
- Nassarius4 sites
- Oxystele4 sites
- Patella4 sites
- Scutellastra barbara4 sites
- Tellina4 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Aulacomya atra3 sites
- Austriumphis dilemma3 sites
- Bullia annulata3 sites
- Calyptraea kilburni3 sites
- Carditella3 sites
- Chamelea3 sites
- Chiton3 sites
- Clanculus3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Crepidula deprima3 sites
- Donax haughtoni3 sites
- Drilla tempestae n. sp.3 sites
- Fusus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Afrocominella capensis, 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
2 references- Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa3
- The Faunal Deposits of a Late Pleistocene Raised Beach at Milnerton, Cape Province, South Africa1
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
Media content1
Picture of Afrocominella capensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Afrocominella capensis 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.