Marginella capensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarginellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Marginellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Marginellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Marginellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Marginella capensis 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Marginella capensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Marginella capensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Artemis orbignyi2 sites
- Buccinum digitale2 sites
- Bullia laevissima2 sites
- Donax serra2 sites
- Nassarius scopularcus2 sites
- Apolymetis papyracea1 site
- Barnea truncata1 site
- Buccinum callosum1 site
- Choromytilus meridionalis1 site
- Lutraria1 site
- Nassa plicatella1 site
- Nassarius1 site
- Perna perna1 site
- Tapes corrugatus1 site
- Tellina cumana1 site
- Turritella bicingulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Marginella capensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Pleistocene shorelines in the Western Cape and South-West Africa2
- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Marginella capensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Marginella capensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Marginella capensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMarginella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krauss 1848