Incatella cingulata
Incatella cingulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- IncatellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
- 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 0 Mya.
21 occurrences of Incatella cingulata 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
21 occurrences- Pliocene12%
- Pleistocene88%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
6 formations
- Estratos de Caldera Formation8
- Formación Coquimbo Formation4
- Pampa del Palo Terrace Formation2
- San Juan Terrace Formation1
- Mancora Tablazo Formation1
- Depósitos Litorales Formation1
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The named rock units Incatella cingulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Incatella cingulata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Incatella cingulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Concholepas concholepas9 sites
- Oliva peruviana8 sites
- Ameghinomya antiqua7 sites
- Choromytilus chorus7 sites
- Tagelus dombeii7 sites
- Crassilabrum crassilabrum6 sites
- Mesodesma (Mesodesma) donacium6 sites
- Mulinia edulis6 sites
- Semele (Semele) solida6 sites
- Crepipatella dilatata5 sites
- Leukoma thaca5 sites
- Xanthochorus cassidiformis5 sites
- Diplodonta inconspicua4 sites
- Nassarius gayi4 sites
- Nucella4 sites
- Priene scabrum4 sites
- Retrotapes lenticularis4 sites
- Tegula tridentata4 sites
- Aeneator3 sites
- Argopecten purpuratus3 sites
- Calyptraea trochiformis3 sites
- Chlorostoma euryomphalum3 sites
- Chlorostoma luctuosum3 sites
- Crucibulum3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Incatella cingulata, 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- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0007
- Cenozoic Turritellidae (Gastropoda) from southern Peru4
- Geología del Área de Adacollo-Puerto Aldea, Región de Coquimbo, Carta No. 963
- Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas3
- Geología del Área Carrizalillo-El Tofo, Regiones de Atacama y Coquimbo1
- A Late Pleistocene macrobenthic assemblage in Caleta Patillos, northern Chile: paleoecological and paleobiogeographical interpretations1
- Geología de la Carta Freirina-El Morado, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 100, 50 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.0001
- Cartas Castilla y Totoral Bajo, Región de Atacama. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0001
Each of the 21 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 Incatella cingulata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Incatella cingulata 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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What may have been alongside itIncatella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1825)