Aporrhais pespelecani

Aporrhais pespelecani, common name the "pelican's foot", is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Aporrhaidae.

Aporrhais pespelecani

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AporrhaisPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 42 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Aporrhais pespelecani on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

42 occurrences

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

13 formations

Red Crag — 52.00°N, 1.00°ERed Crag — 52.03°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 52.02°N, 1.43°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECalabriano — 45.03°N, 10.02°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.02°N, 7.71°EArenas de Huelva — 37.32°N, 6.67°WKasaba — 40.66°N, 39.90°EVienna Basin — 47.95°N, 16.20°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°WSabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°EValldunga — 44.91°N, 8.12°EArgille Azzurre — 43.58°N, 10.92°E

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The named rock units Aporrhais pespelecani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aporrhais pespelecani and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Aporrhais pespelecani and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Aporrhais pespelecani, 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

21 references

Each of the 42 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. 9 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 Aporrhais pespelecani

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H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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.

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What may have been alongside itAporrhais through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)