Euspira draconis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Drake's moon snailPBDB
- Sits inside
- EuspiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Euspira
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Euspira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Euspira
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Euspira draconis 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene89%
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
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The named rock units Euspira draconis 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.
Euspira draconis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Euspira draconis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
614 taxa- Dentalium neohexagonum4 sites
- Lirobittium rugatum4 sites
- Mitrella gausapata4 sites
- Saxidomus nuttalli4 sites
- Turritella cooperi4 sites
- Acteocina culcitella3 sites
- Alia carinata3 sites
- Amphissa versicolor3 sites
- Antiplanes catalinae3 sites
- Atrimitra idae3 sites
- Caesia perpinguis3 sites
- Californiconus californicus3 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum3 sites
- Caryocorbula luteola3 sites
- Chama exogyra3 sites
- Crepidula onyx3 sites
- Crepidula princeps3 sites
- Crockerella conradiana3 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium3 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) fucata3 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana3 sites
- Hiatella arctica3 sites
- Hima mendica3 sites
- Hirtoscala hindsii3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Euspira draconis, 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
5 references- A Late Pliocene macrofossil fauna of Newport Beach, Orange County, California1
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California1
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of some marine Pleistocene deposits in northwest Los Angeles Basin, California1
- Upper Pleistocene Mollusca from Potrero Canyon, Pacific Palisades, California1
- The marine Tertiary stratigraphy of the North Pacific coast of America1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Euspira draconis 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 Euspira draconis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Euspira draconis 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 itEuspira through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1903)