Fissurellidea aperta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FissurellideaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Fissurellidea aperta on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Fissurellidea aperta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fissurellidea aperta and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Fissurellidea aperta and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Calyptraea kilburni2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Afrozoila zietsmani1 site
- Arca1 site
- Argobuccinum casus1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) obliquata1 site
- Barnea truncata1 site
- Bolma1 site
- Carditella1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Chiton1 site
- Clanculus lutosus1 site
- Clionella1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Crepidula1 site
- Cylichna1 site
- Dendrofissurella scutellum1 site
- Dosinia (Dosinia) sicarisinus1 site
- Fusus1 site
- Gastrana1 site
- Gazameda declivis1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Glycymeris fulleri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fissurellidea aperta, 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- A new fossil Cypraea (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) from South Africa with notes on the Alexandria Formation1
- Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa1
- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca1
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. 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 Fissurellidea aperta was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Fissurellidea aperta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fissurellidea aperta 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFissurellidea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1825)