Gibbula affinis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GibbulaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
3 occurrences of Gibbula affinis on record. 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 occurrencesThese 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 Gibbula affinis 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.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Agapilia picta1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Angulus1 site
- Anomia ephippium1 site
- Apiocypraea subexcisa1 site
- Apolymetis1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Arca biangula1 site
- Arcoperna1 site
- Arctica islandica1 site
- Astarte gracilis1 site
- Athleta ficulina1 site
- Athleta rarispina1 site
- Babylonia (Peridipsaccus) eburnoides1 site
- Bathytoma cataphracta1 site
- Bonellitia evulsa1 site
- Bullia hungarica1 site
- Cadulus1 site
- Calliostoma (Ampullotrochus) elegantulum1 site
- Calyptraea chinensis1 site
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Cardita arduini1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gibbula affinis, 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- The Oligocene mollusc fauna of the Piedmont Basin (north-western Italy) 1. Scaphopoda and Archaeogastropoda1
- The Geology of the Lower Haraz Valley area, Central Alborz, Iran1
- Mollusc fauna of the Hungarian Upper Oligocene (Egerian)1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Gibbula affinis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Gibbula affinis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sacco 1896