Neoterebra variegata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeoterebraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Terebridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Terebridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Terebridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Neoterebra variegata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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
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The named rock units Neoterebra variegata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neoterebra variegata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Neoterebra variegata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Acanthina1 site
- Argopecten ventricosus1 site
- Chione californiensis1 site
- Chione subimbricata1 site
- Myrakeena veatchii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Neoterebra variegata, 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- Upper Pleistocene Rocky Shores and Intertidal Biotas at Playa La Palmita (Baja California Sur,Mexico)2
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico1
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 Neoterebra variegata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Neoterebra variegata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNeoterebra through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1834)