Thais (Nucella) packi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NucellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
15 occurrences of Thais (Nucella) packi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
15 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Vaqueros Formation5
- Astoria Formation3
- Pleito Formation · San Lorenzo Group3
- Jewett Formation2
- Round Mountain Formation1
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The named rock units Thais (Nucella) packi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Thais (Nucella) packi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Thais (Nucella) packi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Balanus4 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami4 sites
- Lyropecten miguelensis4 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni4 sites
- Turritella ocoyana4 sites
- Vertipecten kernensis4 sites
- Bruclarkia barkeriana3 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus3 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi3 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana3 sites
- Epitonium (Cirsotrema) clallamense3 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia3 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis3 sites
- Neverita (Glossaulax) andersoni3 sites
- Ocenebra topangensis3 sites
- Priscofusus medialis3 sites
- Vertipecten perrini3 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis2 sites
- Bruclarkia yaquinana2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Calyptraea filosa2 sites
- Cancellaria galei2 sites
- Crassostrea vaquerosensis2 sites
- Crenomytilus mathewsoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Thais (Nucella) packi, 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
5 references- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California6
- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology4
- The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California3
- Geology of the Northern Channel Islands1
- The San Lorenzo series of Middle California. a stratigraphic and paleontologic study of the San Lorenzo Oligocene series of the general region of Mount Diablo, California1
Each of the 15 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 Thais (Nucella) packi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Thais (Nucella) packi 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 itNucella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1918)