Napulus fragilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NapulusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turbinellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Napulus fragilis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
14 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group9
- Coffee Sand Formation · Selma Group4
- Chiwapa Formation1
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The named rock units Napulus fragilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Napulus fragilis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Napulus fragilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
420 taxa- Euspira rectilabrum12 sites
- Turritella trilira11 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria10 sites
- Laxispira lumbricalis9 sites
- Sargana stantoni9 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) americanus8 sites
- Caveola acuta8 sites
- Turritella vertebroides8 sites
- Anomia argentaria7 sites
- Bellifusus curvicostatus7 sites
- Graciliala calcaris7 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani7 sites
- Remera stephensoni7 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pulchella7 sites
- Cossmannia tennesseensis6 sites
- Drilluta distans6 sites
- Hercorhyncus (Hercorhyncus) tippanus6 sites
- Linearis6 sites
- Liopeplum leioderma6 sites
- Morea marylandica6 sites
- Paladmete gardnerae6 sites
- Stantonella ripleyana6 sites
- Thylacus cretaceus6 sites
- Variseila meeki6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Napulus fragilis, 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- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations8
- Changes in Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary benthic marine assemblages: analyses from the North American coastal plain shallow-shelf3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain1
- Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Napulus fragilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Napulus fragilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Napulus fragilis 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 itNapulus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sohl 1964