Gracilispira ligata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Amalda (Gracilispira)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gracilispira ligata 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
2 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
- Werillup Formation · Plantagenet Group1
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The named rock units Gracilispira ligata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gracilispira ligata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Gracilispira ligata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Cerithiella2 sites
- Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni2 sites
- Eutrephoceras2 sites
- Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides1 site
- Apiotoma1 site
- Archierato pyrulata1 site
- Asperdaphne1 site
- Ataxocerithium biaulax1 site
- Ataxocerithium multicostulatum1 site
- Ataxocerithium otopleuroides1 site
- Ataxocerithium venustulum1 site
- Attiliosa arenaria1 site
- Austrolithes incompositus1 site
- Belloliva canaliculata1 site
- Brocchitas1 site
- Caryocorbula pixidata1 site
- Cerithiella limula1 site
- Cerithiidae1 site
- Cerithioderma tabulata1 site
- Cerithiopsidae1 site
- Cerithiopsis1 site
- Cerithiopsis pustuloclathrata1 site
- Cerithium wilya1 site
- Chama1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gracilispira ligata, 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- Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia1
- Silicified Eocene molluscs from the Lower Murchison district, southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Gracilispira ligata 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 Gracilispira ligata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gracilispira ligata 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 itAmalda (Gracilispira) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tate 1889)