Fissurella rixfordi
No picture of Fissurella rixfordi 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 Fissurella rixfordi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FissurellaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Fissurella rixfordi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Fissurella rixfordi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fissurella rixfordi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Fissurella rixfordi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Acutostrea miguelensis1 site
- Amussiopecten vanvlecki1 site
- Amussium lompocensis1 site
- Anodontia1 site
- Antillophos woodringi1 site
- Balanus tintinnabulum1 site
- Batillaria1 site
- Calcidiscus leptoporus1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana1 site
- Cancellaria (Euclia) ocoyana1 site
- Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni1 site
- Chione schencki1 site
- Chlamys sespeensis1 site
- Chlorostoma1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Clementia conradiana1 site
- Coccolithus pelagicus1 site
- Columbellidae1 site
- Conopeum barbarensis1 site
- Conus1 site
- Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus1 site
- Crassadoma gigantea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fissurella rixfordi, 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
2 references- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Miocene Saddleback Valley Limestone, Orange County, Southern California1
- Preliminary report on the paleontology of the Channel Islands, California1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Fissurella rixfordi 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 Fissurella rixfordi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fissurella rixfordi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFissurella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hertlein 1928