Naticarius alapapilionis

Glyphepithema alapapilionis, common name butterfly-wing sand shell, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Naticarius alapapilionis

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
NaticariusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 9.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–814 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences814 ka–274 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11.63 Mya1.8 Mya16.5 Mya274 ka

3 occurrences of Naticarius alapapilionis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

3 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

2 formations

Nyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°EFalse Bay Coral Limestone — 28.37°S, 32.40°E

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The named rock units Naticarius alapapilionis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Naticarius alapapilionis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Naticarius alapapilionis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Naticarius alapapilionis, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 Naticarius alapapilionis

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

No 3D scan of Naticarius alapapilionis 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 itNaticarius through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Röding 1798)