Lunatia hemicrypta
No picture of Lunatia hemicrypta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lunatia hemicrypta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LunatiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
7 occurrences of Lunatia hemicrypta on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 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
3 formations
- Kirkwood Formation5
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- Belgrade Formation1
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The named rock units Lunatia hemicrypta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lunatia hemicrypta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lunatia hemicrypta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
296 taxa- Neverita duplicatus5 sites
- Astarte distans4 sites
- Crepidula plana4 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata4 sites
- Glycymeris parilis4 sites
- Mitrella4 sites
- Murexiella cumberlandiana4 sites
- Turritella cumberlandia4 sites
- Varicorbula elevata4 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta3 sites
- Chesapecten madisonius3 sites
- Crassostrea virginica3 sites
- Crepidula fornicata3 sites
- Euspira heros3 sites
- Isognomon maxillata3 sites
- Mariacolpus plebeia3 sites
- Marvacrassatella melina3 sites
- Mitrella communis mediocris3 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima3 sites
- Pecten humphreysii woolmani3 sites
- Plicatula densata3 sites
- Polinices3 sites
- Serpulorbis granifera3 sites
- Stewartia anodonta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Lunatia hemicrypta, 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
3 references- Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey5
- Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis1
- Additions to the Fauna of the Trent Marl of North Carolina1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Lunatia hemicrypta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lunatia hemicrypta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lunatia hemicrypta 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLunatia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1860)