Cominella (Josepha)
loisstephens1 · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- CominellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 129 ka.
3 occurrences of Cominella (Josepha) on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene33%
- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene33%
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
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The named rock units Cominella (Josepha) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Amalda (Baryspira)2 sites
- Austrovenus2 sites
- Crepidula2 sites
- Diloma2 sites
- Diplodonta zelandica2 sites
- Fellaster2 sites
- Macomona2 sites
- Mactra2 sites
- Mactra (Cyclomactra)2 sites
- Paphies2 sites
- Penion2 sites
- Struthiolaria2 sites
- Tawera2 sites
- Xymene2 sites
- Zegalerus2 sites
- Aeneator1 site
- Alcithoe1 site
- Amalda1 site
- Amalda (Gracilispira)1 site
- Amphibola aff. crenata1 site
- Arrhoges (Antarctohoges) diversicostata1 site
- Atrina pectinata zelandica1 site
- Austrofusus1 site
- Balanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cominella (Josepha), 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- The Mid Pleistocene Waiomio Shellbed (Castlecliffian, ca. 550-600 ky), Wanganui Basin, New Zealand1
- Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy1
- Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand1
Each of the 3 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 Cominella (Josepha)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- loisstephens1
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCominella through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.