Globisinum
Globisinum is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlobisininaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
19 occurrences of Globisinum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
19 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
11 formations
- Rifle Butts Formation · Kaierero Group4
- Muddy Creek Formation3
- Mount Brown Formation2
- Fyansford Formation2
- Ihungia Formation1
- Naseby Greensand Formation · Stranraer Group1
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The named rock units Globisinum 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.
Globisinum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Globisinum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
139 taxa- Cucullaea3 sites
- Baryspira robusta2 sites
- Dentalium solidum2 sites
- Eumarcia2 sites
- Galeodea2 sites
- Kuia2 sites
- Lentipecten hochstetteri2 sites
- Limopsis2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Venericardia2 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa)1 site
- Amalda (Baryspira)1 site
- Amygdalum1 site
- Anchura (Kangilioptera) ravni1 site
- Ancilla (Sparella)1 site
- Anomia trigonopsis1 site
- Antarctodarwinella nordenskjoldi1 site
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)1 site
- Australoneilo rossi1 site
- Austrobuccinum tuberosum1 site
- Austroficopsis wimani1 site
- Austrofusus1 site
- Austrosullivania striata1 site
- Austrotoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Globisinum, 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
8 references- The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision6
- The gastropods of the Older Tertiary of Australia (Part 4)6
- The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision2
- Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy1
- Geology of the Te Aute Subdivision1
- Marine Upper Cretaceous and lowermost Tertiary deposits in West Greenland1
- The Geology of the Dannevirke Subdivision1
- The Geology of the Naseby Subdivision, Central Otago1
Each of the 19 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 Globisinum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Globisinum 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Globisinum”
- 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 itGlobisininae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1924