Magnatica

Magnatica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NaticidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 13.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.04 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 32 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 32 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 11 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 32 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–9.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61.66 Mya13.05 Mya67 Mya10 Mya

32 occurrences of Magnatica on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

32 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

17 formations

Ihungia — 40.03°S, 176.37°EIhungia — 40.13°S, 176.55°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.22°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.77°S, 170.55°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°EKauru — 45.04°S, 170.76°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 45.01°S, 170.71°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.79°S, 170.90°EWaihao — 44.16°S, 171.10°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EGran Bajo del Gualicho — 40.38°S, 65.25°WTorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°ETorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°EOtaio Gorge Sandstone — 44.52°S, 170.93°EOtaio Limonitic Greensand — 44.52°S, 170.93°EWangaloa — 46.20°S, 169.92°EChatton — 46.01°S, 168.91°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°EStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°ETotara Limestone — 45.14°S, 170.87°EWaikari — 43.98°S, 171.11°E

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The named rock units Magnatica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Magnatica and its relatives

Eocene

Where Magnatica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Magnatica, 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

12 references

Each of the 32 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. 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 Magnatica

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itNaticidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marwick 1924)