Nassarius (Niotha) variegatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Nassarius (Niotha)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nassarius
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Nassarius
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Nassarius
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
6 occurrences of Nassarius (Niotha) variegatus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Nassarius (Niotha) variegatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nassarius (Niotha) variegatus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Nassarius (Niotha) variegatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
234 taxa- Terebra3 sites
- Architectonica perspectiva2 sites
- Clypeomorus2 sites
- Fusinus2 sites
- Myurella2 sites
- Nassarius (Zeuxis)2 sites
- Nassarius dorsatus2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Rhinoclavis (Proclava)2 sites
- Semicassis bisulcata2 sites
- Tonna2 sites
- Turris2 sites
- Vexillum2 sites
- Acar1 site
- Adusta pulchella1 site
- Anachis (Costoanachis)1 site
- Anadara (Anadara)1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) tambacana1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) ferruginea1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) pilula1 site
- Ancilla (Sparella)1 site
- Arca1 site
- Architectonica (Architectonica) maxima1 site
- Architectonica (Pseudotorinia) euprepes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nassarius (Niotha) variegatus, 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
6 references- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Volutidae through Terebridae)1
- Neogene gastropods from Panay Island, the Philippines1
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits1
- On the ages of certain Upper Tertiary beds of Peninsula India and Ceylon1
- The geology of the Farsan Islands, Oizan and Kamaran Island, Red Sea. Part 2.- Molluscan palaeontology.1
- A report on a collection of Cainozoic fossils from the oil-fields of Papua1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Nassarius (Niotha) variegatus 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 Nassarius (Niotha) variegatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nassarius (Niotha) variegatus 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 itNassarius (Niotha) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams 1851)