Bedeva paivae
Bedeva paivae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Crosse, 1864 · CC0 · 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
- BedevaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- 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.
4 occurrences of Bedeva paivae on record. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
- Ascot Formation2
- Tamala Limestone Formation1
- Tims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Bedeva paivae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Mactra4 sites
- Bittium3 sites
- Clanculus3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Hemidonax3 sites
- Leiopyrga3 sites
- Natica gualteriana3 sites
- Oliva (Strephona) australis3 sites
- Tawera3 sites
- Alaba2 sites
- Arcopsis2 sites
- Belloliva2 sites
- Cantharidus2 sites
- Carditidae2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Dicathais2 sites
- Donax2 sites
- Epicodakia2 sites
- Eucrassatella2 sites
- Fusus2 sites
- Glycymeris striatularis2 sites
- Gomphina undulosa2 sites
- Haliotis2 sites
- Hypotrochus monachus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bedeva paivae, 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
3 references- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia2
- New Pleistocene and Holocene stratigraphic units in the Yalgorup Plain area, southern Swan Costal Plain1
- The fossil Mollusca of the Peppermint Grove Limestone, Swan River district or Western Australia1
Each of the 4 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 Bedeva paivae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Crosse, 1864
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bedeva paivae 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.
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 itBedeva through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crosse 1864