Natica obscura
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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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Natica obscura 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Natica obscura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Natica obscura and its relatives
MioceneWhere Natica obscura and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Agaronia pupa2 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina) dentata2 sites
- Distorsio decipiens2 sites
- Gemmula gajensis2 sites
- Gyrineum bituberculare2 sites
- Hemipolygona2 sites
- Lyria (Harpeola) jugosa2 sites
- Persististrombus depertitus2 sites
- Pugilina eulactea2 sites
- Turbinella affinis2 sites
- Turricula spuria2 sites
- Varicospira subrimosa2 sites
- Aliculastrum protocylindrica1 site
- Apollon morrisi1 site
- Architectonica affinis1 site
- Barycypraea humerosa1 site
- Biplex1 site
- Callistocypraea (Miolyncina) prunum1 site
- Calyptraea chinensis1 site
- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) pseudocorrugatum1 site
- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rude1 site
- Cernina carlei1 site
- Clathrus gajensis1 site
- Clavellofusus fennemai1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Natica obscura, 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- Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific2
- Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata2
- Miocene Molluscan biosratigraphy of the Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India1
Each of the 5 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. 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 content0
No picture of Natica obscura was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Natica obscura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1840