Aspella (Aspella)
No picture of Aspella (Aspella) 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 Aspella (Aspella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AspellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 1.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 12.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aspella (Aspella) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aspella (Aspella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aspella (Aspella) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Aspella (Aspella) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
189 taxa- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa)1 site
- Alaba1 site
- Alvania1 site
- Amalda glandiformis1 site
- Amalda obsoleta1 site
- Aneurystoma1 site
- Apiocypraea1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Architectonica (Solariaxis)1 site
- Aspella anceps1 site
- Astraea (Bolma) granosa1 site
- Ataxocerithium1 site
- Atilia1 site
- Balanophyllia praelonga1 site
- Balcis1 site
- Bittium (Bittium)1 site
- Bittium (Semibittium)1 site
- Bolinus1 site
- Bolma1 site
- Bolma (Ormastralium)1 site
- Bursa (Bursa)1 site
- Bursa scrobilator1 site
- Caecum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aspella (Aspella), 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Aspella (Aspella) 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 Aspella (Aspella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aspella (Aspella) 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 itAspella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mörch 1877