Peculator

Peculator is a genus of sea snails in the family Volutomitridae, one family of mitres.

Peculator

Charles Cooper · 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
VolutomitridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutomitridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutomitridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutomitridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 340 ka.

Eocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 13 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences37.71 Mya1.63 Mya41.8 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Peculator on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

13 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

4 formations

Rifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°ETainui Shell Bed — 39.95°S, 174.98°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.96°S, 170.65°E

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The named rock units Peculator has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Peculator and its relatives

Miocene

Where Peculator and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Peculator, 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

3 references

Each of the 13 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Peculator

Credit
Charles Cooper
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peculator 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.

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 itVolutomitridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1924