Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa

No picture of Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa 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 Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VolutifususPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 4 of 6 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–912 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences912 ka–784 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences784 ka–657 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1 Mya274 ka

6 occurrences of Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

6 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

4 formations

Waccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WTamiami — 28.29°N, 81.41°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°W

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The named rock units Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

242 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa 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 Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa 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 itVolutifusus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Emmons 1858)