Hima mendica

Hima mendica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
lean western nassaPBDB
Sits inside
Nassarius (Hima)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nassarius
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Nassarius
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Nassarius
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 65 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 59 of 65 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 65 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 29 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

65 occurrences of Hima mendica on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

65 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

12 formations

Timms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WSan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WHookton — 40.98°N, 124.11°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°W

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The named rock units Hima mendica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hima mendica and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hima mendica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,096 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Hima mendica, 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

31 references

Each of the 65 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. 19 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 content1

Picture of Hima mendica

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 Hima mendica 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.

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What may have been alongside itNassarius (Hima) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1849)