Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata

Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata

Carol Stepien · CC BY-NC 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
Also called
tabled whelkPBDB
Sits inside
Neptunea (Sulcosipho)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 50 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 39 of 50 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata 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

50 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

16 formations

Timms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.77°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.81°N, 118.37°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.77°N, 118.31°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WMerced — 43.39°N, 124.28°WMerced — 37.39°N, 122.17°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°WTopsy — 58.39°N, 137.09°WPurisima — 37.05°N, 122.01°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WEmpire — 43.39°N, 124.28°WWildcat — 40.64°N, 124.31°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°W

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The named rock units Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata 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 (Sulcosipho) tabulata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,089 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata, 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

26 references

Each of the 50 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Carol Stepien
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNeptunea (Sulcosipho) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Baird 1863)