Parvanachis obesa

Parvanachis obesa, common name the fat dovesnail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Parvanachis obesa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParvanachisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 46 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 21 of 46 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 8 of 46 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

46 occurrences of Parvanachis obesa 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

46 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

13 formations

James City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.40°W

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The named rock units Parvanachis obesa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parvanachis obesa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Parvanachis obesa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

895 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Parvanachis obesa, 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

14 references

Each of the 46 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. 2 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 Parvanachis obesa

Credit
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Licence
CC BY 2.0
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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itParvanachis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams 1845)