Hipponix tumens

Hipponix tumens

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
ribbed hoofsnailPBDB
Sits inside
HipponixPBDB
Diet
grazer, suspension feederPBDB, for Hipponicidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hipponicidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Hipponicidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 2 of 48 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 46 of 48 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 48 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

48 occurrences of Hipponix tumens on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

48 occurrences

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

7 formations

Unnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WBay Point — 32.78°N, 117.24°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°W

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The named rock units Hipponix tumens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hipponix tumens and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hipponix tumens and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Hipponix tumens, 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

22 references

Each of the 48 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Hipponix tumens

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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHipponix through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1864)