Neverita (Glossaulax) alta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
high moon snailPBDB
Sits inside
Neverita (Glossaulax)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 15 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence549 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences13.82 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Neverita (Glossaulax) alta on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

20 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

6 formations

Round Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.88°WOlcese — 35.47°N, 118.91°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WRound Mountain — 35.44°N, 118.89°WRound Mountain — 35.41°N, 118.83°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°W

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The named rock units Neverita (Glossaulax) alta 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.

Neverita (Glossaulax) alta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Neverita (Glossaulax) alta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

505 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Neverita (Glossaulax) alta, 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

5 references

Each of the 20 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 content0

No picture of Neverita (Glossaulax) alta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Neverita (Glossaulax) alta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Neverita (Glossaulax) alta 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 itNeverita (Glossaulax) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arnold 1903)