Duplicaria
Duplicaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
- PervicaciinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Terebridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Terebridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Terebridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.
36 occurrences of Duplicaria 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
36 occurrencesThese 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
15 formations
- Chengapara Formation4
- Baghmara Formation3
- Kama Formation3
- Singu Formation2
- Cilanang Formation2
- Muddy Creek Formation2
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The named rock units Duplicaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Duplicaria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Duplicaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
492 taxa- Conus5 sites
- Anadara4 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Mimachlamys senatoria3 sites
- Turris3 sites
- Acar plicata2 sites
- Acteocina2 sites
- Alocospira2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
- Borsonia2 sites
- Brachidontes2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Chama2 sites
- Conus arenatus2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Dosinia (Phacosoma)2 sites
- Drillia2 sites
- Gemmula2 sites
- Glycymeris pectunculus2 sites
- Mitra2 sites
- Mizuhopecten2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Duplicaria, 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
18 references- Skwarko, 19949
- Note on the Marine fossils collected by Mr. Pinfold in the Garo Hills4
- Miocene Molluscan biosratigraphy of the Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India3
- Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam3
- On the Quaternary stratigraphy and fossls of Senanivate Housing Project area, Bangkok Metropolis2
- Catalogue of Australian Tertiary Mollusca (except chitons)2
- Results of a revision of some portions of Dr Noetling's second monograph on the Tertiary fauna of Burma2
- Warm-water influx into Japan Sea in the middle Pliocene - Molluscan faunas from the Tentokuji FOrmation around Mt. Taihei in Akita Prefecture1
- An Early Pleistocene molluscan assemblage from Fiji: gastropod faunal composition, paleoecology and biogeography1
- Biostratigraphy of the Post Kopili Sediments of Garo Hills, Meghalaya1
- Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics1
- Characteristics of the Miocene molluscan assemblages from central San-in District, Southwest Honshu, Japan1
Each of the 36 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. 6 further references are 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 Duplicaria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Duplicaria 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPervicaciinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1908)