Natica adansoni
Natica adansoni is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

De Blainville, 1825 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
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 most 1.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Natica adansoni on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Natica adansoni and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Natica adansoni and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Arca noae1 site
- Buccinum digitale1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Calyptraea kilburni1 site
- Cardita unica1 site
- Diodora1 site
- Hespererato oppenheimeri1 site
- Isognomon gariesensis1 site
- Littorina1 site
- Mactra1 site
- Marginella1 site
- Melapium hawthornei1 site
- Nassarius1 site
- Nassarius kochianus1 site
- Nucella praecingulata1 site
- Striostrea margaritacea1 site
- Thais arenae1 site
- Turbo1 site
- Turritella (Torquesia) carinifera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Natica adansoni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1
Picture of Natica adansoni
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- De Blainville, 1825
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Natica adansoni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1825