Bembicium auratum

Bembicium auratum, commonly known as the gold-mouthed conniwink, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.

Bembicium auratum

Tim (iNaturalist user: twan3253) · CC BY 4.0 · 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
BembiciumPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Littorinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Littorinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Littorinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 12 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesHolocene — about 2 of 2 occurrences17 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences512 ka0 Mya

2 occurrences of Bembicium auratum on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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

2 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

1 formation

Herschell Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.52°E

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The named rock units Bembicium auratum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bembicium auratum and its relatives

Holocene

Where Bembicium auratum and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bembicium auratum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 2 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 Bembicium auratum

Credit
Tim (iNaturalist user: twan3253)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bembicium auratum 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.

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What may have been alongside itBembicium through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quoy 1834