Persicula

Persicula is a taxonomic genus of minute to small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. It includes several species which are micromollusks.

Persicula

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 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
PersiculinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cystiscidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cystiscidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cystiscidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 4 of 119 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 119 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 54 of 119 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 46 of 119 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 119 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 24 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 23 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences41.03 Mya1.8 Mya49 Mya0 Mya

119 occurrences of Persicula 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

119 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

34 formations

Mare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WLa Rosa — 10.46°N, 71.03°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WOak Grove — 30.90°N, 84.58°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WTuira — 8.21°N, 77.57°WTuira — 8.20°N, 77.71°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WCumana — 10.47°N, 64.15°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.02°N, 7.71°E

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The named rock units Persicula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Persicula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Persicula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,938 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Persicula, 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

29 references

Each of the 119 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. 17 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 Persicula

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Persicula 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

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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. (Schumacher 1817)