Limacina valvatina

Limacina valvatina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LimacinaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Limacinidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Limacinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Limacinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 41 occurrencesMiocene — about 41 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 41 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20.45 Mya13.82 Mya23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

41 occurrences of Limacina valvatina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

41 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

4 formations

Breda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°W

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The named rock units Limacina valvatina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limacina valvatina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Limacina valvatina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

899 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Limacina valvatina, 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

5 references

Each of the 41 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 content1

Picture of Limacina valvatina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Limacina valvatina 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 itLimacina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss 1867)