Harpa

Harpa, common name the "harp snails", is a genus of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Harpidae.

Harpa

Samuel Chow from Boston, USA · CC BY 2.0 · 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
HarpinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Harpidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Harpidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Harpidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 52 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 52 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 52 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 52 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–3.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

52 occurrences of Harpa on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

52 occurrences

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

26 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WOnzole — 0.95°N, 79.74°WAgueguexquite — 18.09°N, 94.34°WAgueguexquite — 18.15°N, 94.42°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WCilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EKalibiuk — 7.49°S, 110.00°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.77°S, 127.02°EAlifian Limestone — 13.45°N, 144.78°EAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°EWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WGurabo — 19.35°N, 70.72°WNakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°ECrockett — 31.40°N, 93.70°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WArmuelles — 8.27°N, 82.87°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WCuisien — 49.34°N, 3.15°ESables de Cuise — 49.60°N, 3.38°EChira — 4.83°S, 80.65°WDomanda — 30.42°N, 70.51°E

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The named rock units Harpa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Harpa and its relatives

Eocene

Where Harpa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,199 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Harpa, 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

29 references

Each of the 52 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Harpa

Credit
Samuel Chow from Boston, USA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Harpa costata

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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What may have been alongside itHarpinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798