Harpa mutica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HarpaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Harpidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Harpidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Harpidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
10 occurrences of Harpa mutica 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
10 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Harpa mutica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Harpa mutica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Harpa mutica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
354 taxa- Eocypraea inflata3 sites
- Seraphs3 sites
- Amaurellina spirata2 sites
- Ampullaria sigaretina2 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata2 sites
- Calyptraea (Turbocalyptraea) crepidularis2 sites
- Cepatia cepacea2 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina2 sites
- Conus hornii umpquaensis2 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla2 sites
- Delphinula calcar2 sites
- Dentalium stentor2 sites
- Diameza (Miniseraphs)2 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus2 sites
- Eocernina hannibali2 sites
- Eocithara mutica californiensis2 sites
- Ficopsis remondii2 sites
- Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa2 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata2 sites
- Harpula2 sites
- Leptoscapha variculosa2 sites
- Lyria harpula2 sites
- Lyrischapa lajollaensis2 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Harpa mutica, 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
4 references- New species of Eocithara Fischer, 1883 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Harpidae) from the Early Paleogene with phylogenetic analysis of the Harpidae6
- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California2
- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]1
- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris1
Each of the 10 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 Harpa mutica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Harpa mutica 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.
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What may have been alongside itHarpa through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1803)