Finella adamsi
Finella adamsi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Obtortionidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FinellaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Scaliolidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Scaliolidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Scaliolidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
6 occurrences of Finella adamsi 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene83%
- Holocene17%
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
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The named rock units Finella adamsi 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.
Finella adamsi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Finella adamsi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
540 taxa- Rissoina5 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi4 sites
- Argopecten anteamplicostata4 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus4 sites
- Bulla striata4 sites
- Caecum (Caecum) regulare4 sites
- Calliostoma4 sites
- Cerithium4 sites
- Chione cancellata4 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata4 sites
- Corbula (Varicorbula)4 sites
- Crassinella4 sites
- Crepidula maculosa4 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans4 sites
- Marginella4 sites
- Mulinia lateralis4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima4 sites
- Nuculana acuta4 sites
- Prunum roscidum4 sites
- Radiolucina waccamawensis4 sites
- Tectonatica pusilla4 sites
- Teinostoma4 sites
- Tellidora lunulata4 sites
- Tellina4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Finella adamsi, 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
3 references- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida3
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida2
- Gastropod Associations as a Proxy for Seagrass Vegetation in a Tropical, Carbonate Setting (San Salvador, Bahamas)1
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. 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 Finella adamsi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Finella adamsi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itFinella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1889)