Cernina fluctuata nakamurai
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Globularia fluctuataPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
5 occurrences of Cernina fluctuata nakamurai 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Lower Sandstone Formation · Bihoku Group1
- Ena Limestone Formation · Yugashima Group1
- Shimo Formation · Uchiura Group1
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The named rock units Cernina fluctuata nakamurai 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.
Cernina fluctuata nakamurai and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cernina fluctuata nakamurai and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Crassostrea4 sites
- Dosinia (Phacosoma)4 sites
- Euspira meisensis4 sites
- Vicaryella4 sites
- Anadara3 sites
- Cardilia3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Fissidentalium3 sites
- Gyrineum3 sites
- Ostrea3 sites
- Sinum ineptum3 sites
- Tectus japonicus3 sites
- Teredo3 sites
- Acesta2 sites
- Acila (Acila) submirabilis2 sites
- Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Chelyconus2 sites
- Corbula (Solidicorbula)2 sites
- Cyclina2 sites
- Cyclina lunulata2 sites
- Cypraea ohiroi2 sites
- Liracassis2 sites
- Lithophaga2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cernina fluctuata nakamurai, 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
4 references- Characteristics of the Miocene molluscan assemblages from central San-in District, Southwest Honshu, Japan2
- Turbo (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) fossils from the middle Miocene of Izu Peninsula, central Japan, including the description of three new species1
- Miocene tropical sandy and rocky bottom molluscan assemblages of the Shimo Formation, Uchiura Group, Fukui Prefecture, Central Japan1
- New fossil molluscs indicating tropical sea elements from the miocene Bihoku Group, southwest Honshu, Japan: Part 2 Description of Cancilla hirosei n. sp., with notes on some molluscs from the Bihoku Group of Shobara City, Hiroshima Prefecture1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Cernina fluctuata nakamurai was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cernina fluctuata nakamurai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cernina fluctuata nakamurai was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itGlobularia fluctuata through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Otuka 1938)