Natica (Natica)

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NaticaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Natica
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Natica
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Natica
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.
167 occurrences of Natica (Natica) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
167 occurrences- Eocene18%
- Oligocene12%
- Miocene35%
- Pliocene23%
- Pleistocene11%
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
54 formations
- Keasey Formation16
- Clallam Formation8
- Nancy Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group7
- Round Mountain Silt Formation7
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group5
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group5
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The named rock units Natica (Natica) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Natica (Natica) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Natica (Natica) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,396 taxa- Polinices (Euspira) clementensis14 sites
- Moerella quasimacoma13 sites
- Procerapex bentsonae13 sites
- Anadara12 sites
- Conus12 sites
- Architectonica11 sites
- Boreoscala11 sites
- Drillia11 sites
- Ficus11 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis11 sites
- Anechinocardium weaveri10 sites
- Echinophoria dalli10 sites
- Exilia bentsonae10 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita)10 sites
- Olequahia schencki10 sites
- Scaphander impunctatus10 sites
- Turritella10 sites
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) tessellata9 sites
- Amusium9 sites
- Pecten9 sites
- Turricula keaseyensis9 sites
- Bonellitia (Bonellitia) smithwickensis8 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana8 sites
- Conomitra vernoniana8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Natica (Natica), 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
47 references- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel21
- Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon16
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions14
- Skwarko, 199410
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique10
- Molluscan paleontology of the lower Miocene Clallam Formation, northwestern Washington8
- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California8
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae)6
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama5
- Biozonation of the Neogene invertebrate megafauna of the Hellenic area5
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.5
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida5
Each of the 167 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. 35 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Natica (Natica)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Observation International
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Natica canrena · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:152936-Mollusca
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itNatica through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scopoli 1777