Ampullina pseudoalveata
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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 most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
37 occurrences of Ampullina pseudoalveata 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
37 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Ampullina pseudoalveata 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.
Ampullina pseudoalveata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ampullina pseudoalveata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Glycymeris pacifica20 sites
- Actaeonella oviformis12 sites
- Gymnarus manubriatus12 sites
- Ostrea malleiformis12 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia12 sites
- Trigonarca californica12 sites
- Lima (Acesta) beta11 sites
- Turritella hearni11 sites
- Turritella robusta11 sites
- Calva (Calva) regina10 sites
- Carota mitraeformis10 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli10 sites
- Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana10 sites
- Callistalox arata9 sites
- Isocardia delta9 sites
- Biplica isoplicata8 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida8 sites
- Anchura (Helicaulax) tricosa7 sites
- Crassatella gamma7 sites
- Acteon politus6 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana6 sites
- Paraesa zeta6 sites
- Willimactra (Willimactra) putida6 sites
- Clisocolus corrugatus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Ampullina pseudoalveata, 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
9 references- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California15
- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California13
- Three new Turonian muricacean gastropods from the Santa Ana Mountains, Southern California2
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California2
- Added nerineoid gastropod evidence for a warm Turonian sea in southern California1
- Water depth indications from Late Cretaceous mollusks, Santa Ana Mountains, California1
- Late Cretaceous paleoecology of the Holz Shale, Orange County, California1
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
- New species from the Cretaceous of the Santa Ana Mountains, California1
Each of the 37 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 content1
Picture of Ampullina pseudoalveata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ampullina pseudoalveata 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.
Keep going
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. (Packard 1922)