Amalda (Alocospira)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmaldaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
5 occurrences of Amalda (Alocospira) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Amalda (Alocospira) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amalda (Alocospira) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Amalda (Alocospira) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Anomia1 site
- Austrovenus1 site
- Balanus1 site
- Bassina yatei1 site
- Cominella (Cominella)1 site
- Crepidula1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Divaricella1 site
- Dosinia (Asa)1 site
- Dosinia (Austrodosinia)1 site
- Dosinia (Kereia) greyi1 site
- Gari (Gari)1 site
- Kereia cottoni1 site
- Kuia macdowelli1 site
- Macoma (Rexithaerus)1 site
- Maorimactra acuminella1 site
- Notomegabalanus decorus1 site
- Ostrea chilensis1 site
- Panopea worthingtoni1 site
- Phenatoma1 site
- Polinices (Polinices)1 site
- Resania1 site
- Sigapatella1 site
- Struthiolaria (Callusaria)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Amalda (Alocospira), 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
4 references- Stratigraphy, paleontology, and tectonics of Lower Miocene rocks in the Waipatiki/Mangatuna area, southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand2
- New Pliocène and Oligocène Olividae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from France and the Mediterranean area1
- Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics1
- Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Amalda (Alocospira) 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 Amalda (Alocospira), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amalda (Alocospira) 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 itAmalda through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lozouet 1992)