Distorsio clathrata

Distorsio clathrata, common name the Atlantic distorsio, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Personidae, the Distortio snails.

Distorsio clathrata

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 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
DistorsioPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Personidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Personidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Personidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 53 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 38 of 53 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 14 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

53 occurrences of Distorsio clathrata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

53 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

29 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WAgueguexquite — 18.09°N, 94.34°WAgueguexquite — 18.15°N, 94.42°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.07°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.61°N, 63.52°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.86°WCerro Negro — 10.56°N, 64.25°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WGrand Bay — 12.50°N, 61.42°WConcepción — 19.07°N, 96.98°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WLos Perdices Shale — 10.99°N, 74.95°WMunguidó — 4.43°N, 77.00°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WBelmont — 12.46°N, 61.43°WBorbon — 0.85°N, 79.90°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°W

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The named rock units Distorsio clathrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Distorsio clathrata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Distorsio clathrata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

364 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Distorsio clathrata, 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

10 references

Each of the 53 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

Media content1

Picture of Distorsio clathrata

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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 itDistorsio through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1816)