Heterocithara
Heterocithara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Credit:MNHN - Alexandre LARDEUR - 2017 Project:RECOLNAT · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- MangeliidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.05 Mya to 0 Mya.
3 occurrences of Heterocithara on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
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
1 formation
- Stillwater Mudstone Formation · Blue Bottom Group2
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The named rock units Heterocithara 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.
Heterocithara and its relatives
MioceneWhere Heterocithara and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Heterocithara, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
2 references- Late Miocene Deep-Water Mollusca from the Stillwater Mudstone at Greymouth, Westland, New Zealand: Paleoecology and Systematics2
- Microgastropod trophic structure of the Yongshu reef, South China Sea, since the late Pleistocene in relation to paleoenvironment1
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 Heterocithara
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Credit:MNHN - Alexandre LARDEUR - 2017 Project:RECOLNAT
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Heterocithara 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMangeliidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hedley 1922