Neptunea (Neptunea)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeptuneaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.
23 occurrences of Neptunea (Neptunea) 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
23 occurrences- Miocene39%
- Pliocene41%
- Pleistocene20%
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
8 formations
- Tachilni Formation7
- Tentokuji Formation4
- Gubik Formation3
- Empire Formation2
- Wildcat Formation2
- Topsy Formation1
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The named rock units Neptunea (Neptunea) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neptunea (Neptunea) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Neptunea (Neptunea) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
199 taxa- Clinocardium8 sites
- Beringius6 sites
- Buccinum6 sites
- Clinocardium (Clinocardium) meekianum6 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis6 sites
- Cyclocardia6 sites
- Mactromeris albaria6 sites
- Chlamys (Swiftopecten) cosibensis cosibensis5 sites
- Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum5 sites
- Mactromeris polynyma5 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)4 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) castrensis4 sites
- Diplodonta parilis4 sites
- Glycymeris grewingki4 sites
- Macoma4 sites
- Macoma (Macoma)4 sites
- Mactromeris brevirostrata4 sites
- Megayoldia (Portlandella)4 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) elegans4 sites
- Spisula4 sites
- Diplodonta3 sites
- Fusitriton oregonensis3 sites
- Macoma astori3 sites
- Malletia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Neptunea (Neptunea), 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- Molluscan paleontology, paleoecology, and North Pacific correlations of the Miocene Tachilni Formation, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska7
- Warm-water influx into Japan Sea in the middle Pliocene - Molluscan faunas from the Tentokuji FOrmation around Mt. Taihei in Akita Prefecture4
- Cenozoic Megafossils of Northern Alaska3
- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California2
- The marine Tertiary stratigraphy of the North Pacific coast of America2
- Miocene molluscks of the Topsy Formation, Lituya district, Gulf of Alaska Tertiary Province, Alaska1
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska1
- A contribution to the paleontology of the Fernando Group, Ventura County, California1
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington1
- Descriptions of new species of fossil Mollusca from the later marine Neocene of California1
Each of the 23 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
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No picture of Neptunea (Neptunea) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Neptunea (Neptunea) itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Neptunea (Neptunea), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neptunea (Neptunea) 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 itNeptunea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798