Natica broderipiana

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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 least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 774 ka.
8 occurrences of Natica broderipiana on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene70%
- Pleistocene30%
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
5 formations
- Canoa Formation3
- Charco Azul Formation2
- Onzole Formation1
- Armuelles Formation · Charco Azul Group1
- Penita Formation · Charco Azul Group1
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The named rock units Natica broderipiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Natica broderipiana and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Natica broderipiana and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Strombina (Recurvina) recurva4 sites
- Agaronia testacea3 sites
- Crassispira3 sites
- Turricula3 sites
- Antillophos (Antillophos) rutschi2 sites
- Antillophos elegans2 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
- Columbella2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Conus arcuatus vacuanus2 sites
- Conus regularis2 sites
- Distorsio decussata2 sites
- Hybolophus gibbosus2 sites
- Knefastia2 sites
- Malea ringens2 sites
- Mexicardia procera2 sites
- Oliva2 sites
- Olivella2 sites
- Polystira2 sites
- Prunum (Prunum) sapotilla2 sites
- Strombina (Sinuina) ecuadoriana2 sites
- Strombinophos loripanus2 sites
- Thais biserialis2 sites
- Acila (Acila) isthmica burica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Natica broderipiana, 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
3 references- Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica4
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador3
- Naticidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda) from the Neogene of northwestern Ecuador1
Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Natica broderipiana
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Natica broderipiana was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
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What may have been alongside itNatica through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Récluz 1844