Natica (Natica) millepunctata

Natica (Natica) millepunctata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Natica (Natica)PBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 16 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.2–8.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.4–7.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.5–6.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–4.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.8–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya27.8 Mya1.3 Mya

16 occurrences of Natica (Natica) millepunctata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

16 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

8 formations

Uçarsu — 40.66°N, 39.90°ESabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°ESabbie di Asti — 43.32°N, 11.33°EAksucay — 37.27°N, 30.78°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°EKasaba — 40.66°N, 39.90°EValldunga — 44.91°N, 8.12°E

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The named rock units Natica (Natica) millepunctata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Natica (Natica) millepunctata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Natica (Natica) millepunctata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Natica (Natica) millepunctata, 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

7 references

Each of the 16 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Natica (Natica) millepunctata

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

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Natica canrena · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:152936-Mollusca

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNatica (Natica) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sacco 1890