Heleobia australis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeleobiaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Hydrobiidae
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
32 occurrences of Heleobia australis on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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- Pleistocene28%
- Holocene72%
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
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The named rock units Heleobia australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heleobia australis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Heleobia australis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
143 taxa- Nucula (Lamellinucula) semiornata13 sites
- Erodona mactroides11 sites
- Pitar rostratus11 sites
- Agathistoma patagonicum10 sites
- Corbula8 sites
- Olivella (Olivina) tehuelchana8 sites
- Tagelus plebeius8 sites
- Brachiodontes7 sites
- Buccinanops6 sites
- Carditamera plata6 sites
- Corbula lyoni6 sites
- Ostrea equestris6 sites
- Atilia5 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus5 sites
- Buccinanops deformis5 sites
- Buccinanops globulosum5 sites
- Ennucula puelcha5 sites
- Epitonium georgettinum5 sites
- Notocochlis isabelleana5 sites
- Turbonilla5 sites
- Anomalocardia brasiliana4 sites
- Brachiodontes rodriguezi4 sites
- Calyptraea (Crepidula) protea4 sites
- Corbula patagonica4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Heleobia australis, 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- Paleontologia de los sedimentos marinos holocenos de los alrededores de Bahia Blanca, Provincia de Buenos Aires14
- Cenozoic Mollusks from the drillholes Cassino and Palmares do Sul of the Coastal Plain of Rio Grande do Sul14
- Taphonomy of the Late Pleistocene marine molluscan assemblages from Uruguay3
- The Quaternary geological history of the Santa Catarina southeastern region (Brazil)1
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 Heleobia australis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Heleobia australis 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 itHeleobia through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1837)