Littorina sheaferi
No picture of Littorina sheaferi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Littorina sheaferi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LittorinaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Littorinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Littorinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Littorinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 1.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Littorina sheaferi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene100%
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
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
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The named rock units Littorina sheaferi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Littorina sheaferi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Littorina sheaferi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa1 site
- Busycon (Echinofulgur) echinatum helenae1 site
- Calliostoma (Leiotrochus)1 site
- Cancellaria (Massyla) shirleyae1 site
- Cymatosyrinx aclinica1 site
- Hindsia1 site
- Ilyanassa1 site
- Ilyanassa marthae1 site
- Perplicaria perplexa1 site
- Placunanomia plicata1 site
- Planicardium virginianum1 site
- Scaphella1 site
- Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria1 site
- Terebra1 site
- Trigonostoma1 site
- Trigonostoma (Emmonsella) smithfieldensis1 site
- Trigonostoma (Extractrix) hoerlei1 site
- Turritella (Broderiptella) mansfieldi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Littorina sheaferi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Littorina sheaferi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Littorina sheaferi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Littorina sheaferi 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 itLittorina through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1967