Delphinula delphinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- laciniated dolphin shellPBDB
- Sits inside
- AngariaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Turbinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 129 ka.
9 occurrences of Delphinula delphinus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
9 occurrences- Miocene67%
- Pliocene22%
- Pleistocene11%
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
5 formations
- Naha Formation · Ryukyu Group1
- Cilanang Formation1
- Quilon Limestone Formation1
- Alifian Limestone Formation1
- Band-e- Chaker Formation1
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The named rock units Delphinula delphinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Delphinula delphinus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Delphinula delphinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Marmorostoma (Batillus)2 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Asperella (Asperella) acutangulus1 site
- Calliostoma1 site
- Cerithium traillii1 site
- Clanculus microdon ater1 site
- Conus (Lithoconus) hardi1 site
- Conus (Lithoconus) odengensis1 site
- Conus virgo1 site
- Corbula (Solidicorbula)1 site
- Crassatella radiata1 site
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum1 site
- Cyphastrea microphthalma1 site
- Cypraea1 site
- Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola1 site
- Cypraea (Lyncina) schilderorum1 site
- Dipsastraea favus1 site
- Dipsastraea pallida1 site
- Favites1 site
- Favites borneensis1 site
- Fungia decipiens1 site
- Goniopora1 site
- Gryphus hanzawai1 site
- Haliotis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Delphinula delphinus, 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
7 references- Skwarko, 19942
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits2
- Early Miocene reef- and mudflat-associated gastropods from Makran (SE-Iran)1
- Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands1
- The Miocene Mollusca from Quilon, Kerala (India)1
- Pliocene mollusca from a coral limestone of a hill near Sekoerau, E. Borneo1
- Die Tertiärschichten auf Java. Nach den Entdecjungen von Fr. Junghuhn1
Each of the 9 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
No picture of Delphinula delphinus 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 Delphinula delphinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itAngaria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)