Hindsiclava

Hindsiclava is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae,

Hindsiclava

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
PseudomelatomidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 126 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 126 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 86 of 126 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 36 of 126 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 126 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 8 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 11 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 11 occurrences9.3–8.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences8.2–7.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.0–5.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.9–4.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.7–3.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.6–2.4 Mya — about 20 occurrences2.4–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–111 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20.45 Mya1.8 Mya34.6 Mya111 ka

126 occurrences of Hindsiclava 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

126 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

41 formations

Gatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.09°N, 81.83°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WChagres Sandstone — 9.60°N, 79.53°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WChagres Sandstone — 9.17°N, 80.28°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WShark Hole Point — 9.06°N, 81.78°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 103.60°WQuebradillas Limestone — 18.47°N, 66.99°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WMaissade — 18.90°N, 72.04°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCoatzacoalcos — 18.14°N, 94.41°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°W

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The named rock units Hindsiclava has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hindsiclava and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hindsiclava and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,693 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Hindsiclava, 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

35 references

Each of the 126 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. 23 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 Hindsiclava

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hindsiclava 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hertlein and Strong 1955)