Voluta alfaroi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VolutaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.
15 occurrences of Voluta alfaroi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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 occurrences- Oligocene7%
- Miocene13%
- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene13%
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
- Gatun Formation2
- Punta Pelada Formation1
- Mount Hope Formation1
- Rio Banano Formation1
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Banano Formation1
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The named rock units Voluta alfaroi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Voluta alfaroi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Voluta alfaroi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis2 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
- Arcinella arcinella2 sites
- Argopecten gibbus2 sites
- Argopecten levicostatus2 sites
- Cancellaria apimela2 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum2 sites
- Chione cancellata2 sites
- Conus burckhardti2 sites
- Cymatophos veatchi erymnus2 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinia) delicatissima2 sites
- Lamelliconcha cora2 sites
- Macrocallista maculata2 sites
- Muracypraea isthmica2 sites
- Oliva reticularis2 sites
- Phacoides pectinatus2 sites
- Polinices stanislasmeunieri2 sites
- Polystira2 sites
- Raeta undulata2 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana2 sites
- Strombus gatunensis2 sites
- Strombus pugilis2 sites
- Terebra (Oreoterebra) isaacpetiti2 sites
- Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense hadratatum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Voluta alfaroi, 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
6 references- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica9
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae).2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Organismos de un arrecife fósil (Oligoceno Superior-Mioceno Inferior), del Caribe de Costa Rica1
- Geologia de la Peninsula de la Guajira1
- Two collections of Pleistocene fossils from the Isthmus of Panama1
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
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No picture of Voluta alfaroi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Voluta alfaroi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Voluta alfaroi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVoluta through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1912