Natica
Searched as Natica scethra bruica. The Paleobiology Database treats Natica as the accepted name.
Natica is a genus of small to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropods in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails. The genus was erected by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1777.
H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- NaticinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Natica on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Natica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Natica and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Natica and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
3,460 taxa- Dentalium53 sites
- Turritella50 sites
- Corbula39 sites
- Ostrea39 sites
- Plagiostoma29 sites
- Lobothyris punctata27 sites
- Tellina23 sites
- Weyla alata23 sites
- Nucula22 sites
- Nuculana22 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta21 sites
- Bryozoa20 sites
- Chlamys textoria20 sites
- Glycymeris20 sites
- Pholadomya20 sites
- Anomia19 sites
- Arca19 sites
- Architectonica19 sites
- Cardium19 sites
- Cerithium19 sites
- Modiolus19 sites
- Yoldia19 sites
- Aporrhais18 sites
- Lithophaga18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 835 sites for Natica, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
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 content2
Picture of Natica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Natica”
- 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 itNaticinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scopoli 1777