Makiyamaia coreanica
Makiyamaia coreanica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.

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
- MakiyamaiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Makiyamaia coreanica on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
5 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
- Shimajiri Formation2
- Hijikata Formation · Kakegawa Group2
- Yonabaru Formation · Shimajiri Group1
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The named rock units Makiyamaia coreanica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Makiyamaia coreanica and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Makiyamaia coreanica and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Gemmula3 sites
- Hindsia (Nihonophos) magnifica3 sites
- Micantapex3 sites
- Elaeocyma2 sites
- Fulgoraria2 sites
- Fusitriton2 sites
- Globigerina2 sites
- Lishkeia sp.2 sites
- Pliconacca atricapilla2 sites
- Amalda (Baryspira)1 site
- Ancilla1 site
- Architectonica (Architectonica) maxima1 site
- Bathybembix1 site
- Bolivinita1 site
- Buccinaria1 site
- Bulimina1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Chicoreus1 site
- Conus1 site
- Conus (Lithoconus) litteratus1 site
- Fulgoraria (Saotomea)1 site
- Granulifusus niponicus1 site
- Hindsia (Nihonophos)1 site
- Hyalinea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Makiyamaia coreanica, 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
2 references- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits3
- Marine Thermal Structure of the Plio-Pleistocene Warm Water in Central Japan2
Each of the 5 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 Makiyamaia coreanica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Makiyamaia coreanica 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 itMakiyamaia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Reeve 1850)