Duplicaria duplicata
Duplicaria duplicata, commonly referred to as the duplicate auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

Linnaeus, 1758 · CC0 · 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
- DuplicariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Terebridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Terebridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Terebridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Duplicaria duplicata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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.
Duplicaria duplicata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Duplicaria duplicata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Conus2 sites
- Conus arenatus2 sites
- Glycymeris pectunculus2 sites
- Mimachlamys senatoria2 sites
- Polinices peselephanti2 sites
- Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus2 sites
- Tritia2 sites
- Turris2 sites
- Acar plicata1 site
- Acropora pharaonis1 site
- Acropora salundensis1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca clathrata1 site
- Arca imbricata arabica1 site
- Asaphis deflorata1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata1 site
- Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca1 site
- Bursa granularis1 site
- Callista1 site
- Canarium1 site
- Cardita variegata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Duplicaria duplicata, 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- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, introduzione e parte I (gasteropodi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, introduction and part I (gastropods)]1
- A report on a collection of Cainozoic fossils from the oil-fields of Papua1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Duplicaria duplicata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Duplicaria duplicata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDuplicaria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1822)