Littorina
Searched as Littorina nebulosa tessellata. The Paleobiology Database treats Littorina as the accepted name.
Littorina is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.
Amy Benson, U.S. Geological Survey · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LittorinidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Littorinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Littorinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Littorinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Littorina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Littorina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Littorina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Littorina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,412 taxa- Acmaea mitra26 sites
- Callianax biplicata26 sites
- Californiconus californicus25 sites
- Crepidula adunca25 sites
- Lottia scabra25 sites
- Diodora aspera24 sites
- Mytilus californianus24 sites
- Chlorostoma funebrale23 sites
- Leukoma staminea22 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus22 sites
- Amphissa versicolor21 sites
- Epilucina californica21 sites
- Glans carpenteri21 sites
- Atrimitra idae20 sites
- Crassadoma gigantea20 sites
- Alia carinata19 sites
- Fissurella volcano18 sites
- Lottia digitalis17 sites
- Lottia limatula17 sites
- Pododesmus (Monia) macrochisma17 sites
- Homalopoma (Homalopoma) luridum16 sites
- Lottia insessa16 sites
- Tresus nuttallii16 sites
- Acanthinucella spirata15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Littorina, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Littorina
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Amy Benson, U.S. Geological Survey
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Littorina 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Littorina”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLittorinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ferussac 1821)