Diodora meta

Diodora meta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiodoraPBDB
Diet
grazer, carnivorePBDB, for Diodora
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Diodora
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Diodora
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 6 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6 Mya774 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Diodora meta on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

6 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

Mare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°W

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The named rock units Diodora meta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Diodora meta and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Diodora meta and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Diodora meta, 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

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Diodora meta

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Diodora meta 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 itDiodora through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ihering 1927)