Natica domenginica
No picture of Natica domenginica 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 Natica domenginica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Natica domenginica on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 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
2 formations
- Ardath Formation · La Jolla Group4
- Domengine Formation1
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The named rock units Natica domenginica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Natica domenginica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Natica domenginica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) rosecanyonensis4 sites
- Bittium cliffensis3 sites
- Fasciolaria bilineata3 sites
- Fusus (Hemifusus) cooperii3 sites
- Natica (Carinacca) rosensis3 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa3 sites
- Pleurofusia ladrilloensis3 sites
- Rimella supraplicata3 sites
- Tejonia moragai3 sites
- Turritella uvasana applinae3 sites
- Antigona kelloggi2 sites
- Caryocorbula parilis2 sites
- Conus hornii umpquaensis2 sites
- Corbula wardii2 sites
- Eosurcula praeattenuata2 sites
- Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) domenginica2 sites
- Paraseraphs erraticus2 sites
- Pitaria sorrentoensis2 sites
- Pleurofusia fresnoensis2 sites
- Solariella crenulata2 sites
- Terebrifusus howei2 sites
- Corbula tomulata1 site
- Crassatella uvasana1 site
- Ficopsis remondii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Natica domenginica, 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- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California4
- Molluscan faunas of the Domengine and Arroyo Hondo Formations of the California Eocene1
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
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No picture of Natica domenginica 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 Natica domenginica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Natica domenginica was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vokes 1939