Euspira catena

Euspira catena, previously known as Natica catena, common name the large necklace shell, is a medium-sized species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Euspira catena

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
EuspiraPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Euspira
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Euspira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Euspira
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 6 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 21 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 10 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Euspira catena 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

21 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

7 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ELillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°WCalabriano — 45.03°N, 10.02°ERhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°E

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The named rock units Euspira catena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euspira catena and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Euspira catena and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

852 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Euspira catena, 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

11 references

Each of the 21 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 Euspira catena

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

No 3D scan of Euspira catena 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

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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 itEuspira through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (da Costa 1778)