Natica vitellus

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

Natica vitellus

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
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 33 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Natica vitellus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

33 occurrences

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

14 formations

Togopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°EYonabaru — 26.21°N, 127.74°EShinzato — 26.18°N, 127.81°EGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°ELower Sangkulirang Marl — 0.81°N, 117.85°EMandul Marl — 3.75°N, 117.65°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EUpper Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°ETartaro — 15.15°N, 121.01°EQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°EBaghmara — 25.18°N, 90.67°E

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The named rock units Natica vitellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Natica vitellus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Natica vitellus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

352 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Natica vitellus, 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

10 references

Each of the 33 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 content1

Picture of Natica vitellus

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Natica vitellus 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.

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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. (Linnaeus 1758)