Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata

Felipe I. Torres · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- Fissurella (Fissurella)PBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene75%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata 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.
Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Calyptraea trochiformis1 site
- Choromytilus chorus1 site
- Concholepas concholepas1 site
- Crepipatella dilatata1 site
- Diplodonta inconspicua1 site
- Ensis macha1 site
- Eurhomalea rufa1 site
- Fissurella (Fissurella) maxima1 site
- Incatella cingulata1 site
- Leukoma thaca1 site
- Mesodesma (Mesodesma) donacium1 site
- Mulinia edulis1 site
- Nucella1 site
- Oliva peruviana1 site
- Pholas (Thovana) chiloensis1 site
- Priene1 site
- Retrotapes lenticularis1 site
- Semele (Semele) solida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas2
- Pliocene and Pleistocene Fissurella Bruguiére, 1789 (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) from Southern Peru1
- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0001
Each of the 4 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 Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Felipe I. Torres
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFissurella (Fissurella) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1835)