Friginatica

Friginatica is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae, the moon shells.

Friginatica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NaticinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 13.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.04 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 32 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 32 occurrencesMiocene63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56 Mya13.05 Mya63 Mya10 Mya

32 occurrences of Friginatica on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

16 formations

Tapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.88°S, 170.77°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.96°S, 170.65°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.92°S, 170.58°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.84°S, 170.52°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°EKauru — 45.06°S, 170.73°EKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°EWaihao — 44.16°S, 171.10°EMount Brown — 44.16°S, 171.10°EMount Brown — 44.03°S, 170.72°EFyansford — 38.13°S, 144.28°EFyansford — 38.22°S, 145.03°EJan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°ENullarbor Limestone — 32.35°S, 123.63°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°ETokama Siltstone — 44.31°S, 171.22°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.79°S, 170.51°EGlen Aire Clay — 38.83°S, 143.48°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EGellibrand Marl — 37.77°S, 141.23°EOtaua — 35.57°S, 173.42°E

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The named rock units Friginatica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Friginatica and its relatives

Miocene

Where Friginatica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

203 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Friginatica, 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

11 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. 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 Friginatica

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itNaticinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hedley 1916