Distorsio constricta

Distorsio constricta is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Personidae, the Distortio snails.

Distorsio constricta

Shellnut · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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 4.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.246 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Distorsio constricta on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

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

5 formations

Tuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WAgueguexquite — 18.15°N, 94.42°WArmuelles — 8.27°N, 82.87°WMontezuma — 9.65°N, 85.07°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°W

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The named rock units Distorsio constricta 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.

Distorsio constricta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Distorsio constricta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Distorsio constricta, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Distorsio constricta

Credit
Shellnut
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photography scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Distorsio constricta · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:142482-Mollusca

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDistorsio through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broderip 1835)