Amblychilepas oblonga

Amblychilepas oblonga, common name the oblong keyhole limpet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.

Amblychilepas oblonga

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmblychilepasPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Fissurellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fissurellidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Fissurellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 118 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences629 ka0 Mya

1 occurrence of Amblychilepas oblonga on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

1 occurrences

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

  • Tims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone FormationWestern Australia · AU · 0.129–0.0117 Mya1
Tims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone — 32.65°S, 115.63°E

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The named rock units Amblychilepas oblonga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Amblychilepas oblonga and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Amblychilepas oblonga and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Amblychilepas oblonga, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Amblychilepas oblonga

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amblychilepas oblonga 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. Menke 1843