Natica gualteriana

Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.
24 occurrences of Natica gualteriana on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
24 occurrences- Miocene13%
- Pliocene63%
- Pleistocene25%
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
11 formations
- Vigo Formation2
- Ascot Formation2
- Tuatua Limestone Formation2
- Ryukyu Limestone Formation · Sakishima Group1
- Cabatuan Formation1
- Pucangan Formation · Kendeng Group1
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The named rock units Natica gualteriana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Natica gualteriana and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Natica gualteriana and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
360 taxa- Conus6 sites
- Nassarius6 sites
- Cerithium5 sites
- Glycymeris4 sites
- Strombus4 sites
- Terebra4 sites
- Vexillum4 sites
- Anadara3 sites
- Bedeva paivae3 sites
- Bittium3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Hemidonax3 sites
- Lamarcka ventricosa3 sites
- Leiopyrga3 sites
- Mactra3 sites
- Oliva3 sites
- Ostrea3 sites
- Placamen3 sites
- Rissoina3 sites
- Tawera3 sites
- Tellina3 sites
- Turbo (Marmarostoma)3 sites
- Alaba2 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Natica gualteriana, 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
7 references- Cenozoic fossil Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Japan13
- Circum-Pacific Late Cenozoic Paleobiogeography: Consideration of latitudinal gradients, provincialism and beta diversity (Unpublished taxonomic opinions)5
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia2
- Late Pleistocene gastropods from the raised reefal limestone of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: taxonomic and palaeoenvironmental implications1
- Pleistocene mollusc assemblage in the slightly raised atoll lagoon of Niau (Tuamotu, French Polynesia)1
- An Early Pleistocene molluscan assemblage from Fiji: gastropod faunal composition, paleoecology and biogeography1
- New Pleistocene and Holocene stratigraphic units in the Yalgorup Plain area, southern Swan Costal Plain1
Each of the 24 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 gualteriana
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Natica gualteriana 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Récluz 1843)