Gemmula abacta
No picture of Gemmula abacta 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 Gemmula abacta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GemmulaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Gemmula abacta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Gemmula abacta 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.
Gemmula abacta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Gemmula abacta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Crassatella uvasana3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum3 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei3 sites
- Amaurellina moragai2 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi2 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Conus (Hemiconus) aegilops2 sites
- Conus hornii2 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla2 sites
- Dentalium cooperi2 sites
- Dentalium stramineum2 sites
- Ficopsis remondii2 sites
- Gyrineum uvasalis2 sites
- Macoma viticola2 sites
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana2 sites
- Molopophorus cretaceus2 sites
- Natica uvasana2 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii2 sites
- Patelloida tejonensis2 sites
- Pitar uvasana2 sites
- Priscoficus cowlitzensis2 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii2 sites
- Spirocrypta pileum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gemmula abacta, 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- Fauna and stratigraphic relations of the Tejon Eocene at the type locality in Kern County, California2
- New Species of Middle Eocene Gastropods from the Northern Doty Hills, Southwestern Washington1
- Paleoecology of a protected biotope from the Eocene Mission Valley Formation, San Diego County, California1
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 content0
No picture of Gemmula abacta 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 Gemmula abacta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gemmula abacta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGemmula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anderson and Hanna 1925