Latiala californica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LatialaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Latiala californica on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
14 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- Redding Formation · Pacheco Group5
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group5
- Hornbrook Formation2
- Ladd Formation1
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The named rock units Latiala californica 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.
Latiala californica and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Latiala californica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana5 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida4 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana4 sites
- Biplica isoplicata3 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica3 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli3 sites
- Natica conradiana3 sites
- Ostrea malleiformis3 sites
- Paosia californica3 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Acteon politus2 sites
- Ampullina pseudoalveata2 sites
- Atresius liratus2 sites
- Calva2 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) spissa2 sites
- Cymbophora2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana2 sites
- Tellinidae2 sites
- Tenea2 sites
- Turritella hearni2 sites
- Yaadia2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Latiala californica, 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
6 references- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results4
- Eight Aporrhaid gastropod species from the Cretaceous of the Pacific Slope of North America and clarification of the type species of Perissoptera3
- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California3
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast2
- Water depth indications from Late Cretaceous mollusks, Santa Ana Mountains, California1
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
Each of the 14 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 Latiala californica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Latiala californica 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 itLatiala through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)