Neverita josephinia

Neverita josephinia is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Naticidae, the moon shells.

Neverita josephinia

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
Sits inside
NeveritaPBDB
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 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 38 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence41.03 Mya774 ka49 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Neverita josephinia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

38 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

12 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.02°N, 7.71°EBaldissero — 45.07°N, 7.82°EMaraldi Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°EFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°EFaluns de la Touraine — 47.39°N, 1.26°ESabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°ESabbie di Asti — 43.32°N, 11.33°EMontello conglomerate — 46.22°N, 12.80°EArenas de Huelva — 37.32°N, 6.67°WApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EReinbek Stuffe — 51.77°N, 6.62°ECalabriano — 45.03°N, 10.02°E

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The named rock units Neverita josephinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neverita josephinia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Neverita josephinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,079 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Neverita josephinia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

12 references

Each of the 38 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 Neverita josephinia

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Risso 1826)