Naticopsis scintilla

Newell, Norman D. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- NaticopsisPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Naticopsidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Naticopsis
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticopsis
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Naticopsis
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Naticopsis
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 303.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Naticopsis scintilla on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Flechado Formation1
- Drum Formation · Kansas City Group1
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The named rock units Naticopsis scintilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Naticopsis scintilla and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Naticopsis scintilla and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Glabrocingulum grayvillense2 sites
- Soleniscus regularis2 sites
- Amphiscapha catilloides1 site
- Amphiscapha reedsi1 site
- Ananias talpaensis1 site
- Anomphalus1 site
- Anomphalus blancus1 site
- Anomphalus verruculiferus1 site
- Apachella1 site
- Araeonema1 site
- Arribazona hesperita1 site
- Baylea giffordi1 site
- Baylea inclinata1 site
- Bellazona1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Bellerophon incomptus1 site
- Bellerophon wewokanus1 site
- Bicuerda procolumnare1 site
- Callispira1 site
- Callispira quinquecostata1 site
- Ceraunocochlis fulminula1 site
- Cerithioides1 site
- Cibecuia magnum1 site
- Cyclites diminutus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Naticopsis scintilla, 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
2 references- Middle Pennsylvanian gastropods from the Flechado Formation, north-central New Mexico1
- Invertebrate paleontology1
Each of the 2 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 Naticopsis scintilla
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Newell, Norman D.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Naticopsis scintilla 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 itNaticopsis through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1915)