Ampullinopsis spenceri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmpullinopsisPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
14 occurrences of Ampullinopsis spenceri on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
14 occurrencesThese 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
8 formations
- Caimito Formation2
- Mancora Formation2
- Mirador Formation · Chira Group1
- Posojra Formation1
- San Sebastian Formation1
- Santiago Formation1
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The named rock units Ampullinopsis spenceri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ampullinopsis spenceri and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Ampullinopsis spenceri and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Turritella meroensis3 sites
- Agaronia2 sites
- Angulus2 sites
- Clementia dariena rabelli2 sites
- Lamelliconcha wolfi2 sites
- Macoma meroensis2 sites
- Oliva (Oliva)2 sites
- Pecten antiguensis churuguarensis2 sites
- Periglypta tarquinia2 sites
- Sanguinolaria tumbezana2 sites
- Scapharca meroensis2 sites
- Sinum2 sites
- Adrana1 site
- Agaronia antisana1 site
- Agriopoma (Pitarella) chiraensis1 site
- Aliculastrum1 site
- Ampullina anguillana1 site
- Ampullina bravoensis1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Antillipecten anguillensis1 site
- Aturia peruviana1 site
- Callianassa anguillensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ampullinopsis spenceri, 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- Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae)3
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene3
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.2
- Some Venezualan and Caribbean Mollusks2
- Some Tertiary fossils from Goajira peninsula of Colombia1
- The age of the Hannatoma mollusk fauna of South America; a symposium1
- The geology of south-western Ecuador1
- Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba1
Each of the 14 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 Ampullinopsis spenceri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Ampullinopsis spenceri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ampullinopsis spenceri 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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What may have been alongside itAmpullinopsis through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cooke 1919)