Gemmula violeta
No picture of Gemmula violeta 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 Gemmula violeta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GemmulaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gemmula violeta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
- Delmar Formation · La Jolla Group1
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The named rock units Gemmula violeta 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.
Gemmula violeta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Gemmula violeta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Macoma (Rexithaerus) rosa2 sites
- Bittium cliffensis1 site
- Bittium preussi1 site
- Bullaria jolla1 site
- Cancellaria bournei1 site
- Caryocorbula parilis1 site
- Conus goodwini1 site
- Conus remondii1 site
- Corbula rosecanyonensis1 site
- Corbula tomulata1 site
- Crassatella uvasana1 site
- Cuspidaria vorbei1 site
- Drillia cliffensis1 site
- Fusinus voetus1 site
- Gemmula tumata1 site
- Grovesia mathewsonii1 site
- Latirus nightingalei1 site
- Natica (Carinacca) rosensis1 site
- Natica clementensis1 site
- Pleurofusia fresnoensis1 site
- Pleurofusia ladrilloensis1 site
- Portlandia rosa1 site
- Potamides carbonicola1 site
- Solariella dibitata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gemmula violeta, 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- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California2
- Middle Eocene mollusks from northern San Diego County, California1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gemmula violeta 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 Gemmula violeta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gemmula violeta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGemmula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hanna 1927