Perimangelia interfossa
Perimangelia interfossa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

G.W. Tryon · Public Domain · 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
- PerimangeliaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
21 occurrences of Perimangelia interfossa 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
21 occurrences- Pliocene5%
- Pleistocene95%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
7 formations
- Unnamed Formation5
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation3
- Careaga Sandstone Formation2
- Santa Barbara Formation2
- Towsley Formation1
- Quaternary terrace Formation1
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The named rock units Perimangelia interfossa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Perimangelia interfossa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Perimangelia interfossa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
852 taxa- Callianax biplicata12 sites
- Cumingia californica12 sites
- Diodora aspera12 sites
- Epilucina californica12 sites
- Glans carpenteri12 sites
- Homalopoma (Homalopoma) luridum12 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata12 sites
- Tenaturris variegata11 sites
- Acteocina culcitella10 sites
- Amphissa versicolor10 sites
- Antisabia panamensis10 sites
- Californiconus californicus10 sites
- Crepidula adunca10 sites
- Fissurella volcano10 sites
- Lottia insessa10 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa10 sites
- Nutricola tantilla10 sites
- Petricola (Petricola) carditoides10 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus10 sites
- Alia carinata9 sites
- Atrimitra idae9 sites
- Calliostoma ligatum9 sites
- Chlorostoma funebrale9 sites
- Dendropoma lituella9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Perimangelia interfossa, 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
10 references- Geology of San Nicolas Island, California5
- Late Pleistocene molluscan faunas from upper terraces of the Palos Verdes Hills, California4
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California3
- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California2
- New and characteristic species of fossil mollusks from the oil-bearing Tertiary formations of Santa Barbara County, California2
- Early Pliocene marine climate and environment of the eastern Ventura Basin, Southern California1
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California1
- Late Pleistocene megafauna of Cayucos, California, and its zoogeographic significance1
- Late Pleistocene faunas from the northwestern coast of Baja California, Mexico1
- Report on Pleistocene Molluscan Fauna at Capistrano Beach, Orange County, Calif1
Each of the 21 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 Perimangelia interfossa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- G.W. Tryon
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Perimangelia interfossa 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 itPerimangelia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1864)