Distorsio decussata

Distorsio decussata, commonly named the decussate distorsio, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Personidae, the Distortio snails.

Distorsio decussata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DistorsioPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Personidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Personidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Personidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 43 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 64 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 64 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.6–6.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.0–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11.63 Mya2.58 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Distorsio decussata on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

64 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

20 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WArmuelles — 8.27°N, 82.87°WArmuelles — 8.27°N, 81.97°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WAngostura — 1.09°N, 78.99°WAngostura — 1.17°N, 79.02°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WArmuelles — 8.40°N, 83.12°WMontezuma — 9.65°N, 85.07°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCharco Azul — 8.55°N, 83.00°WPenita — 8.23°N, 82.97°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 103.60°WLimónes — 10.00°N, 83.22°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WOnzole — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WCharco Azul — 8.45°N, 82.83°WChagres Sandstone — 9.18°N, 80.24°W

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The named rock units Distorsio decussata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Distorsio decussata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Distorsio decussata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

980 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Distorsio decussata, 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

13 references

Each of the 64 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Distorsio decussata

Credit
Shellnut
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Distorsio decussata 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 itDistorsio through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Valenciennes 1832)