Euspira pallida

Euspira pallida is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Euspira pallida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
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 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 32 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 15 of 32 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 13 of 32 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–809 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Euspira pallida 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

32 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

6 formations

Presumpscot — 43.31°N, 69.78°WPresumpscot — 43.64°N, 70.26°WPresumpscot — 44.13°N, 68.87°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.54°N, 20.50°WShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.72°EShimajiri — 26.20°N, 127.70°EElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WRed Crag — 52.10°N, 1.45°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°W

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The named rock units Euspira pallida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euspira pallida and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Euspira pallida and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

198 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Euspira pallida, 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 32 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 Euspira pallida

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Licence
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No 3D scan of Euspira pallida was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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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. (Broderip and Sowerby 1829)