Gazameda iredalei
Gazameda iredalei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.
Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
- GazamedaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gazameda iredalei on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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 Gazameda iredalei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gazameda iredalei and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Gazameda iredalei and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Bembicium2 sites
- Campanile symbolicum2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Haliotis2 sites
- Katelysia scalarina2 sites
- Mactra2 sites
- Pegophysema sphericula2 sites
- Sydaphera2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
- Turbo torquatus2 sites
- Alaba1 site
- Amalda (Gracilispira)1 site
- Amesodema angusta1 site
- Amesodema cuneata1 site
- Ammonia1 site
- Amoria (Amoria)1 site
- Anapella cycladea1 site
- Anomalocardia1 site
- Arcopsis1 site
- Astraea1 site
- Bedeva paivae1 site
- Belloliva1 site
- Bembicium nanum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gazameda iredalei, 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
2 references- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia1
- Molluscan faunas of the Early Pleistocene Point Allen Formation and Burnham limestone, South Australia1
Each 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. 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 Gazameda iredalei
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGazameda through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay 1927