Natica (Natica) peruviana

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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 most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Natica (Natica) peruviana 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Natica (Natica) peruviana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Natica (Natica) peruviana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Natica (Natica) peruviana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana3 sites
- Doliocassis samanica3 sites
- Ectinochilus gaudichaudi alauda3 sites
- Epitonium (Acrilla) peruvianum3 sites
- Lamelliconcha hillii3 sites
- Agaronia2 sites
- Amotapas2 sites
- Ancillarina2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
- Architectonica sullana2 sites
- Caryocorbula salina2 sites
- Dorsanum lagunitensis2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Juliacorbula boggsi2 sites
- Mactra2 sites
- Pseudoliva2 sites
- Pseudoliva modesta2 sites
- Sphaerocypraea negritensis2 sites
- Terebra negritensis2 sites
- Tritiaria terebratula2 sites
- Turritella chira2 sites
- Turritella samanensis2 sites
- Admete paytensis1 site
- Adrana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Natica (Natica) peruviana, 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
2 references- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca2
- Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of northern Peru: Part 11
Each of the 3 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) peruviana
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows 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
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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1928