Natica labellata
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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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
16 occurrences of Natica labellata 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
16 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
7 formations
- Barton Beds Formation6
- Barton Clay Formation3
- Sables a Nummulites variolarius Formation1
- Headon Beds Formation1
- Hempstead Formation1
- Bracklesham Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Natica labellata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Natica labellata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Natica labellata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
597 taxa- Corbula14 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta11 sites
- Dentalium11 sites
- Haustator imbricataria11 sites
- Cubitostrea plicata10 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata10 sites
- Glycymeris10 sites
- Rimella rimosa9 sites
- Ancilla8 sites
- Bullinella8 sites
- Stirpulina coronata8 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum7 sites
- Clavilithes7 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica7 sites
- Crassatella7 sites
- Odontostomia7 sites
- Serpula7 sites
- Sycostoma7 sites
- Turricula7 sites
- Xenophora7 sites
- Architectonica (Solariaxis)6 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina)6 sites
- Callista6 sites
- Conomitra6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Natica labellata, 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
6 references- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire7
- The Upper Eocene, comprising the Barton and Upper Bagshot Formations4
- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris2
- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques1
- On the Tertiary fluvio-marine formation of the Isle of Wight1
- On the discovery of an alligator and of several new Mammalia in the Hordwell Cliff; with observations upon the geological phenomena of that locality1
Each of the 16 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 labellata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. Lamarck 1804