Natica bolus

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- NaticaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Natica
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Natica
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Natica
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
33 occurrences of Natica bolus 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
33 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Natica bolus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Natica bolus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Natica bolus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
361 taxa- Oliva gatunensis18 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis17 sites
- Bivetiella dariena16 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis16 sites
- Strioterebrum spiriferum16 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana15 sites
- Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira14 sites
- Conus molis13 sites
- Lepidopecten scissuratus13 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis13 sites
- Polystira13 sites
- Bellucina actinus12 sites
- Strombina (Strombina) lessepsiana11 sites
- Volvarina leander11 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis dariensis10 sites
- Antillophos (Rhipophos) metuloides10 sites
- Architectonica nobilis10 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum10 sites
- Macrocallista maculata10 sites
- Naticarius10 sites
- Polinices stanislasmeunieri10 sites
- Metula gabbi9 sites
- Anadara8 sites
- Antillophos (Antillophos) candei gatunensis8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Natica bolus, 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
5 references- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.22
- Spatial and stratigraphic variation in marine paleoenvironments in the Late Miocene Gatun Formation, Isthmus of Panama7
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
Each of the 33 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 Natica bolus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Schepsel Schelp
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Natica bolus 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 itNatica through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown and Pilsbry 1913