Marginella semen
No picture of Marginella semen 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 Marginella semen, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Marginella semen on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Gatuncillo Formation1
- Barnwell Sand Formation1
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Marginella semen has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Marginella semen and its relatives
EoceneWhere Marginella semen and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
229 taxa- Haustator carinata3 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) magnifica3 sites
- Actaeonema2 sites
- Acteon idoneus2 sites
- Bullia altilis2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus2 sites
- Caricella pyruloides2 sites
- Crassostrea2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina2 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Levifusus2 sites
- Lucina2 sites
- Mazzalina inaurata2 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Polinices eminulus2 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta2 sites
- Sinum2 sites
- Spisula parilis2 sites
- Surculoma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Marginella semen, 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- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae).1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Marginella semen 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 Marginella semen, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Marginella semen 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 itMarginella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lea 1833)