Lophocochlias minutissimus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LophocochliasPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Skeneidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Skeneidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Skeneidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Lophocochlias minutissimus on record. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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 the same rock
55 taxa- Astraea (Astralium) waluensis1 site
- Astraea (Vitiastraea) holmesi1 site
- Astralium1 site
- Caecum1 site
- Cheilea equestris1 site
- Clithon (Clithon) corona1 site
- Collonista1 site
- Conus1 site
- Conus (Lithoconus) litteratus1 site
- Cryptoplax1 site
- Cryptoplax menkrawitensis1 site
- Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola1 site
- Cypraea (Lyncina) lynx1 site
- Dolicholatirus1 site
- Erosaria everwijni1 site
- Euchelus (Herpetopoma) instrictus1 site
- Globularia (Waluia)1 site
- Heliacus variegatus1 site
- Hipponix (Antisabia)1 site
- Hipponix conicus1 site
- Ipsa childreni1 site
- Krebsia1 site
- Luria isabella1 site
- Magillus antiquus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lophocochlias minutissimus, 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
2 references- Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands3
- Pleistocene mollusc assemblage in the slightly raised atoll lagoon of Niau (Tuamotu, French Polynesia)1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Lophocochlias minutissimus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lophocochlias minutissimus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLophocochlias through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pilsbry 1921)