Amalda (Gracilispira)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmaldaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 129 ka.
11 occurrences of Amalda (Gracilispira) on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
11 occurrences- Eocene73%
- Miocene9%
- Pleistocene18%
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
7 formations
- Banc à verrins Formation3
- Waihao Greensand Formation2
- Broken River Formation1
- Point Allen Formation1
- Ihungia Formation1
- Waiomio Formation1
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The named rock units Amalda (Gracilispira) 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.
Amalda (Gracilispira) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Amalda (Gracilispira) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
454 taxa- Eopleurotoma5 sites
- Cardita4 sites
- Caryocorbula striata3 sites
- Cerithiella3 sites
- Cochlespira3 sites
- Comitas3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Costacallista laevigata3 sites
- Cucullaea (Latiarca)3 sites
- Gemmula3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Glycymeris pulvinata3 sites
- Loxocardium obliquum3 sites
- Marginella (Stazzania)3 sites
- Nipteraxis3 sites
- Sigmesalia multisulcata3 sites
- Amalda (Baryspira)2 sites
- Amauropsina canaliculata2 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Austrofusus (Austrofusus)2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Bathyarca2 sites
- Bittium2 sites
- Caestocorbula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Amalda (Gracilispira), 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
8 references- The molluscs of the “Falunière” of Grignon (Middle Lutetian, Yvelines, France): quantification of lithification bias and its impact on the biodiversity assessment of the Middle Eocene of Western Europe3
- Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics2
- Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia1
- Silicified Eocene molluscs from the Lower Murchison district, southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia1
- Stratigraphy, paleontology, and tectonics of Lower Miocene rocks in the Waipatiki/Mangatuna area, southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand1
- The Mid Pleistocene Waiomio Shellbed (Castlecliffian, ca. 550-600 ky), Wanganui Basin, New Zealand1
- Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand1
- Molluscan faunas of the Early Pleistocene Point Allen Formation and Burnham limestone, South Australia1
Each of the 11 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 Amalda (Gracilispira) 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 Amalda (Gracilispira), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amalda (Gracilispira) 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 itAmalda through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson 1956)