Alabina

Alabina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlabininaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 128 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 128 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 78 of 128 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 128 occurrencesPleistocene — about 20 of 128 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 10 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 13 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 13 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 13 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 20 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

128 occurrences of Alabina 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

128 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

29 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.78°N, 118.33°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.63°WRio Gurabo — 19.45°N, 71.17°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WPicaderos — 0.80°N, 78.93°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WPirabas — 2.41°S, 44.42°W

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The named rock units Alabina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alabina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Alabina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,814 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Alabina, 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

20 references

Each of the 128 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. 8 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 Alabina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Alabina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1902