Pyrgiscus tenuiculus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
30 occurrences of Pyrgiscus tenuiculus 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
30 occurrences- Pliocene3%
- Pleistocene97%
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
6 formations
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation9
- San Pedro Sand Formation7
- Palos Verdes Formation2
- Unnamed Formation1
- Fernando Formation1
- Lomita Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Pyrgiscus tenuiculus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pyrgiscus tenuiculus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pyrgiscus tenuiculus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
952 taxa- Callianax biplicata22 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus22 sites
- Californiconus californicus21 sites
- Caesia fossatus19 sites
- Epilucina californica19 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum18 sites
- Leukoma staminea18 sites
- Acteocina culcitella17 sites
- Alia carinata17 sites
- Caesia perpinguis17 sites
- Fissurella volcano17 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum16 sites
- Chlorostoma funebrale16 sites
- Crepidula nummaria16 sites
- Cryptomya californica16 sites
- Leptopecten latiauratus16 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata16 sites
- Lottia insessa16 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli16 sites
- Paciocinebrina interfossa16 sites
- Diodora aspera15 sites
- Hipponix tumens15 sites
- Lacuna (Epheria) unifasciata15 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Pyrgiscus tenuiculus, 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
13 references- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California11
- Late Pleistocene faunas from the northwestern coast of Baja California, Mexico4
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California3
- Habitats and Sources of Pleistocene Mollusks at Torrey Pines Park, California2
- The paleontology of the Pleistocene molluscan fauna of the Newport Bay area, California2
- Pleistocene invertebrates from the Dume Terrace, western Santa Monica Mountains, California1
- Geology of San Nicolas Island, California1
- Paleoecologic molluscan geography of the Californian Pleistocene1
- Pleistocene invertebrates from Punta China, Baja California, Mexico, with remarks on the composition of the Pacific coast Quaternary faunas1
- Upper Pleistocene Mollusca from Potrero Canyon, Pacific Palisades, California1
- Additional Notes on the Pliocene Molluscan Fauna of Los Angeles City1
- The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California1
Each of the 30 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. 1 further reference is 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.
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No picture of Pyrgiscus tenuiculus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pyrgiscus tenuiculus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pyrgiscus tenuiculus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTurbonilla (Pyrgiscus) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1853)