Neogastropoda
Searched as Neogastropoda indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Neogastropoda as the accepted name.
Neogastropoda is an order of aquatic snails, both freshwater and marine gastropod molluscs. Neogastropods and their close relatives, such as Tonnoidea and Cypraeoidea, form the clade Latrogastropoda.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LatrogastropodaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 88 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
163 occurrences of Neogastropoda on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
163 occurrences- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
- Late Cretaceous90%
- Paleocene6%
- Eocene2%
- Oligocene1%
- Mioceneunder 1%
- Plioceneunder 1%
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
19 formations
- Prairie Bluff Formation35
- Escondido Formation29
- Corsicana Marl Formation26
- Providence Formation15
- Coffee Sand Formation · Selma Group9
- Chiwapa Formation7
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The named rock units Neogastropoda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neogastropoda and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Neogastropoda and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
2,352 taxa- Turritella67 sites
- Gastropoda56 sites
- Cadulus51 sites
- Retusa galba40 sites
- Dentalium39 sites
- Bivalvia38 sites
- Hipponix38 sites
- Naticidae38 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus37 sites
- Athleta petrosa36 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta36 sites
- Anthozoa35 sites
- Bullata semen35 sites
- Ficus34 sites
- Nuculana33 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis32 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta32 sites
- Buccitriton texanum30 sites
- Lunulitidae29 sites
- Acteon idoneus28 sites
- Turbinolia (Turbinolia) pharetra28 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella27 sites
- Bryozoa27 sites
- Endopachys maclurii26 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 312 sites for Neogastropoda, and this reads 240 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
14 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain59
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain43
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf25
- Changes in Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary benthic marine assemblages: analyses from the North American coastal plain shallow-shelf9
- Patterns of molluscan extinction and recovery across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in east Texas; report on new outcrops9
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) echinoid-mollusc-coral assemblages and palaeoenvironments from a Tethyan carbonate platform succession, northern Oman Mountains5
- The Black Creek-Peedee formational contact (Upper Cretaceous) in the Cape Fear river region of North Carolina4
- Paleoecological anlaysis of molluscan assemblages from the Middle Eocene Cowlitz Formation, southwestern Washington3
- Geology and Paleontology of the Late Miocene Wilson Grove Formation at Bloomfield Quarry, Sonoma County, California1
- The Rauenberg fossil Lagerstätte (Baden-Württemberg, Germany): A window into early Oligocene marine and coastal ecosystems of Central Europe1
- Checklist of Mesozoic macrofossil localities in the Santa Cruz Mountains and vicinity1
- The paleoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian (Cretaceous) stage boundary extinctions at Black Mesa, Arizona1
Each of the 163 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. 2 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Neogastropoda
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- No machine-readable author provided. Bricktop assumed (based on copyright claims).
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neogastropoda was found in Sketchfab.
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
- 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 itLatrogastropoda through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Thiele 1929)