Ampullina oviformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmpullinaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
4 occurrences of Ampullina oviformis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous75%
- Eocene25%
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
3 formations
- Tepetate Formation1
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group1
- Chatsworth Formation1
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The named rock units Ampullina oviformis 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.
Ampullina oviformis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ampullina oviformis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Biplica obliqua3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa2 sites
- Astarte tuscana2 sites
- Calva (Calva) varians2 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii2 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii2 sites
- Meekia (Meekia) sella2 sites
- Nanonavis breweriana2 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana2 sites
- Pyktes hamulus2 sites
- Adelodonax altus1 site
- Agazzizia sp.1 site
- Amphiura lymani1 site
- Anchura falciformis1 site
- Architectonica veatchii1 site
- Atira inornata1 site
- Atira ornatissima1 site
- Avicula1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Baculites chicoensis1 site
- Buchia piochii1 site
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi1 site
- Calva (Egelicalva) nitida1 site
- Cancellaria simiana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ampullina oviformis, 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- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico1
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
- Description of the Cretaceous fossils1
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. 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 Ampullina oviformis 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 Ampullina oviformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ampullina oviformis 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 itAmpullina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)