Alaba supralirata
Alaba supralirata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Litiopidae.
Jan Delsing · 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
- AlabaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Litiopidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Litiopidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Litiopidae
- 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 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Alaba supralirata 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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.
Alaba supralirata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Alaba supralirata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
356 taxa- Bulla punctulata3 sites
- Chione undatella3 sites
- Acteocina infrequens2 sites
- Alvania2 sites
- Anomia peruviana2 sites
- Arcopsis solida2 sites
- Atilia2 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) reeveana2 sites
- Cerithiopsis2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Chrysallida2 sites
- Ctena galapagana2 sites
- Cythara (Mangelia)2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Engina2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Kellia suborbicularis2 sites
- Mangelia hancocki2 sites
- Modulus2 sites
- Niveria (Niveria) pacifica2 sites
- Nodipecten magnificus2 sites
- Pedipes2 sites
- Polinices uber2 sites
- Pseudozonaria nigropunctata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Alaba supralirata, 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
3 references- Pliocene fossils from Baltra (South Seymour) Island, Galápagos Islands1
- Upper Pleistocene Mollusca from Potrero Canyon, Pacific Palisades, California1
- Marine Pleistocene mollusks from the Galapagos Islands1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Alaba supralirata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Alaba supralirata 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAlaba through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter 1857