Natica neptuni
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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 most 6.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 125.77 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Natica neptuni on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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.
Natica neptuni and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Natica neptuni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Acanthodiscus magnificus1 site
- Acanthodiscus radiatus1 site
- Arctica1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Dichotomites multicostatus1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Exogyra reedi1 site
- Gervillia alatior1 site
- Grammatodon1 site
- Harpagodes americanus1 site
- Harpagodes mexicanus1 site
- Leopoldia crassicostata1 site
- Leopoldia truncata1 site
- Lima (Plagiostoma) kanei1 site
- Lucina kellumi1 site
- Natica hugardiana1 site
- Neithea biangulata1 site
- Nerinea1 site
- Panopea1 site
- Parrasites victoriensis1 site
- Pecten1 site
- Pholadomya1 site
- Pholadomya gigantea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Natica neptuni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Natica neptuni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Natica neptuni 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 Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850