Mammilla melanostoma
Sébastien Vasquez · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- MammillaPBDB
- 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 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Mammilla melanostoma 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene29%
- Pleistocene71%
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
- Ryukyu Limestone Formation · Sakishima Group1
- Shinzato Formation · Shimajiri Group1
- Tanapag Limestone Formation1
- Tuatua Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Mammilla melanostoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mammilla melanostoma and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mammilla melanostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Conus3 sites
- Terebra3 sites
- Biplex2 sites
- Chicoreus2 sites
- Conus (Lithoconus) litteratus2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Gemmula2 sites
- Latirus polygonus2 sites
- Lyria2 sites
- Natica vitellus2 sites
- Oliva2 sites
- Peristernia2 sites
- Tonna2 sites
- Turbo (Turbo) petholatus2 sites
- Acar plicata1 site
- Adusta pulchella1 site
- Alatotrochus rubescens1 site
- Aloconatica niasensis1 site
- Amalda (Baryspira)1 site
- Anachis (Costoanachis)1 site
- Ancilla (Turrancilla)1 site
- Antigona (Ventricola)1 site
- Architectonica (Architectonica) maxima1 site
- Architectonica (Pseudotorinia) euprepes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mammilla melanostoma, 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
4 references- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae)3
- 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 deposits2
- Geology of Ishigaki-shima Ryukyu-retto1
- Marine mollusca from the "Ryukyu Limestone" of Kikai-Zima, Ryukyu Group1
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. 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 Mammilla melanostoma
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Sébastien Vasquez
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mammilla melanostoma 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 itMammilla through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)