Natica helvacea
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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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
21 occurrences of Natica helvacea on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
21 occurrences- Miocene38%
- Pliocene57%
- Pleistocene5%
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
7 formations
- Mandul Marl Formation1
- Batuputih Formation · Kupang Group1
- Cilanang Formation1
- Nyalindung Formation1
- Palembang Formation1
- Baghmara Formation1
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The named rock units Natica helvacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Natica helvacea and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Natica helvacea and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
238 taxa- Corbula3 sites
- Anadara2 sites
- Buccinofusus2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Cryptospira2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Gari2 sites
- Gemmula (Gemmula)2 sites
- Inquisitor2 sites
- Placamen2 sites
- Striarca sculptilis2 sites
- Strombus2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
- Terebra2 sites
- Tibia (Tibia)2 sites
- Turritella (Kurosioia) cingulifera2 sites
- Acanthocardia1 site
- Acar1 site
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)1 site
- Adelphotectonica1 site
- Amalda (Baryspira)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Natica helvacea, 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
8 references- Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java)9
- Skwarko, 19946
- Diversity and Paleoecology of Miocene Coral-Associated Mollusks from East Kalimantan (Indonesia)1
- Early Pleistocene gastropods from Timor1
- Preangerian (Late Miocene) Mollusca from a hill near Sekurau, northern Kutai, Kalimantan Timur (East Borneo)1
- Mollusca from Preangerian deposits of Mandul Island, northeastern Kalimantan Timur (East Borneo)1
- Hunting Survey Corporation, LTD, 19611
- Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam1
Each of the 21 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 Natica helvacea 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 Natica helvacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Natica helvacea 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1822