Haliotis saldanhae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HaliotisPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Haliotis saldanhae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene25%
- Pliocene57%
- Pleistocene18%
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
- Varswater Formation · Sandveld Group2
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The named rock units Haliotis saldanhae 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.
Haliotis saldanhae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Haliotis saldanhae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Turris3 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Argobuccinum casus2 sites
- Calyptraea kilburni2 sites
- Carditella2 sites
- Chiton2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Fusus2 sites
- Gastrana2 sites
- Hespererato oppenheimeri2 sites
- Lutraria2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
- Nucella praecingulata2 sites
- Oxystele2 sites
- Striostrea margaritacea2 sites
- Terebra canisaxi2 sites
- Turbo2 sites
- Afrocominella capensis1 site
- Amblychilepas scutellum1 site
- Austriumphis dilemma1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) obliquata1 site
- Barnea truncata1 site
- Bolma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Haliotis saldanhae, 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- Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa2
- Preliminary report on the fossil avian remains from late Tertiary sediments at Langebaanweg (Cape Province), South Africa1
- Pliocene marine invertebrates from Langebaanweg, Cape Province1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Haliotis saldanhae 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 Haliotis saldanhae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Haliotis saldanhae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itHaliotis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kensley 1972