Amyclina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NassariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
36 occurrences of Amyclina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
36 occurrences- Miocene61%
- Pliocene31%
- Pleistocene6%
- Holocene3%
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
9 formations
- Red Crag Formation4
- Lillo Formation2
- Maraldi Sandstone Formation1
- Montello conglomerate Formation1
- Berada Formation1
- Coralline Crag Formation1
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The named rock units Amyclina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amyclina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Amyclina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
910 taxa- Nassarius16 sites
- Lucinoma borealis15 sites
- Ringicula buccinea15 sites
- Babylonella14 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis14 sites
- Euspira helicina14 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima14 sites
- Hiatella arctica14 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) nucleus14 sites
- Roxania14 sites
- Varicorbula gibba14 sites
- Asthenotoma13 sites
- Eulima13 sites
- Euspira13 sites
- Limacina13 sites
- Mitrella13 sites
- Sveltia13 sites
- Yoldiella13 sites
- Aequipecten12 sites
- Amalda obsoleta12 sites
- Cyclocardia12 sites
- Ficus conditus12 sites
- Habecardium12 sites
- Haustellum12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Amyclina, 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
14 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein)16
- Wood, 18483
- The maximum warmings of the Pleistocene world climate recorded in the Canary Islands2
- Pliocene gastropod faunas from Kallo (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium) - Part 2. Caenogastropoda: Potamididae-Tornidae2
- Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy2
- Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java)2
- Wood, 18822
- A fauna da Idade do Ferro e da Época Romana de Monte Molião (Lagos, Algarve): continuidades e rupturas na dieta alimentar1
- Neogene stratigraphy of the Langenboom locality (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands)1
- Observations paléontologiques réalisées dans les terrains néogènes belges de 1971 à 2004 entre Kallo et Doël, Port d'Anvers, rive gauche (Flandre-Orientale, Belgique). Le Miocène du Deurgangkdok à Doël1
- The Marine Gram Formation at Gram, Denmark: Late Miocene Geology and Palaeontology1
- Stratigraphic interpretation of the Neogene marine-continental record in the Maaseik well (49W0220) in the Roer Valley Graben, NE Belgium1
Each of the 36 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Amyclina
- 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 Amyclina 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNassariidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Iredale 1918)