Gadila aberrans

Gadila aberrans

Whiteaves, 1887 · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
Also called
aberrant toothshellPBDB
Sits inside
GadilaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Gadilida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Gadilida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gadilida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

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.

Pliocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 10 of 13 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Gadila aberrans 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

13 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

Foxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WTimms Point Silt — 33.74°N, 118.29°W

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The named rock units Gadila aberrans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gadila aberrans and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Gadila aberrans and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

943 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Gadila aberrans, 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 13 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 Gadila aberrans

Credit
Whiteaves, 1887
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gadila aberrans 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 itGadila through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whiteaves 1887)