Antiplanes catalinae
Antiplanes catalinae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AntiplanesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
24 occurrences of Antiplanes catalinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
24 occurrences- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene94%
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
8 formations
- Timms Point Silt Formation10
- Lomita Marl Formation4
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation2
- Anchor Formation2
- Gubik Formation1
- San Pedro Sand Formation1
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The named rock units Antiplanes catalinae 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.
Antiplanes catalinae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Antiplanes catalinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
798 taxa- Caesia perpinguis10 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium10 sites
- Acteocina culcitella9 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum9 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana9 sites
- Turritella cooperi9 sites
- Californiconus californicus8 sites
- Callianax biplicata8 sites
- Crepidula nummaria8 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum8 sites
- Lirobittium rugatum8 sites
- Mitrella gausapata8 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa8 sites
- Solen sicarius8 sites
- Caesia fossatus7 sites
- Crepidula onyx7 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis7 sites
- Epilucina californica7 sites
- Kelletia kelletii7 sites
- Nemocardium (Keenaea) centifilosum7 sites
- Panopea generosa7 sites
- Parvilucina tenuisculpta7 sites
- Saccella taphria7 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Antiplanes catalinae, 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
12 references- The cool-water Timms Point Pleistocene horizon at San Pedro, California11
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California2
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of some marine Pleistocene deposits in northwest Los Angeles Basin, California2
- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California1
- Paleoecologic molluscan geography of the Californian Pleistocene1
- Cenozoic Megafossils of Northern Alaska1
- Upper Pleistocene Mollusca from Potrero Canyon, Pacific Palisades, California1
- Geologic Application of Biometrical Analysis of Molluscan Assemblages1
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California1
- The Anomalous Stratigraphy of Deadman's Island, California1
- The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California1
- Results of Preliminary Examination of Seven Samples of Sediments from near Lomita1
Each of the 24 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 Antiplanes catalinae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Smithsonian institution
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAntiplanes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Raymond 1904)