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

MarcusStigwan · 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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Distorsio minoruohnishii 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
2 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
2 formations
- Armuelles Formation · Charco Azul Group1
- Montezuma Formation1
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The named rock units Distorsio minoruohnishii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Distorsio minoruohnishii and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Distorsio minoruohnishii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Distorsio minoruohnishii, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
1 referenceEach 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 Distorsio minoruohnishii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- MarcusStigwan
- 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
- 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 itDistorsio through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parth 1989