Amphissa pulchrilineata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphissaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Amphissa pulchrilineata 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 Amphissa pulchrilineata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amphissa pulchrilineata and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Amphissa pulchrilineata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis1 site
- Acrilla (Undiscala) olympicensis1 site
- Anechinocardium lorenzanum1 site
- Aturia angustata1 site
- Calyptraea (Galerus) vancouverensis1 site
- Crepidula1 site
- Cyclocardia castor1 site
- Cytherea1 site
- Fusinus (Priscofusus) hannibali1 site
- Lucinoma acutilineata1 site
- Macrocallista weaveri1 site
- Mactromeris ramonensis1 site
- Panopea1 site
- Pitar1 site
- Psammotreta (Leporimetis) rostellata1 site
- Securella carmanahensis1 site
- Siderastrea vancouverensis1 site
- Thracia (Homoeodesma) trapezoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Amphissa pulchrilineata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach 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 Amphissa pulchrilineata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Amphissa pulchrilineata 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 itAmphissa through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1918