Gegania parabella
No picture of Gegania parabella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gegania parabella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GeganiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mathildidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Mathildidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Mathildidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gegania parabella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gegania parabella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gegania parabella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gegania parabella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
375 taxa- Anchura substriata3 sites
- Ecphora proquadricostata3 sites
- Goniocylichna bisculpturata3 sites
- Graciliala calcaris3 sites
- Lemniscolittorina berryi3 sites
- Morea marylandica3 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria3 sites
- Sargana stantoni3 sites
- Tornatellaea cretacea3 sites
- Turritella tippana3 sites
- Turritella trilira3 sites
- Turritella vertebroides3 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) americana2 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) cretacea2 sites
- Acirsa (Plesioacirsa) microstriata2 sites
- Amaurellina stephensoni2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Anchura convexa2 sites
- Anomalofusus substriatus2 sites
- Anteglosia subornata2 sites
- Astandes densatus2 sites
- Bellifusus curvicostatus2 sites
- Beretra gracilis2 sites
- Bizarrus abnormalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gegania parabella, 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- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations2
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Gegania parabella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gegania parabella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gegania parabella 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 itGegania through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wade 1927)