Babylonia spirata

Babylonia spirata, common name the Spiral Babylon, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Babyloniidae. It is the type species of the genus Babylonia.

Babylonia spirata

Kiran.thumma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
BabyloniaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 6 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11.63 Mya5.333 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Babylonia spirata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

11 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

4 formations

Nyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°E

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The named rock units Babylonia spirata 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.

Babylonia spirata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Babylonia spirata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Babylonia spirata, 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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 content2

Picture of Babylonia spirata

Credit
Kiran.thumma
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 itBabylonia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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