Bailya intricata
Bailya intricata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pisaniidae.

BMSM Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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- Sits inside
- BailyaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Bailya intricata 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Bailya intricata 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.
Bailya intricata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bailya intricata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
142 taxa- Fasciolaria2 sites
- Latirus2 sites
- Abra aequalis1 site
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Acteocina bidentata1 site
- Acteocina canaliculata1 site
- Adrana newcombi1 site
- Agaricia agaricites1 site
- Alaba incerta1 site
- Americardia media1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) pittieri1 site
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa1 site
- Anadara notabilis1 site
- Angulus merus1 site
- Angulus versicolor1 site
- Anodontia alba1 site
- Arcopagia fausta1 site
- Arcopsis adamsi1 site
- Argopecten gibbus1 site
- Astralium1 site
- Atilia1 site
- Atys1 site
- Balanus eburneus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bailya intricata, 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
4 references- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations1
- Pleistocene Mollusks from western Cuba1
- Two collections of Pleistocene fossils from the Isthmus of Panama1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Bailya intricata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- BMSM Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bailya intricata 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBailya through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1884)