Alia carinata

Alia carinata

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
Also called
carinate dovesnailPBDB
Sits inside
AliaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
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 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 77 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 77 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 72 of 77 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 77 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 39 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

77 occurrences of Alia carinata 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

77 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

12 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°W

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The named rock units Alia carinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alia carinata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Alia carinata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Alia carinata, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

34 references

Each of the 77 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. 22 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 Alia carinata

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Alia carinata 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hinds 1844)