Natica permunda

Harris, G · CC0 · via GBIF. 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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
46 occurrences of Natica permunda 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
46 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
3 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group32
- Yazoo Clay Formation · Jackson Group6
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group5
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The named rock units Natica permunda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Natica permunda and its relatives
EoceneWhere Natica permunda and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
324 taxa- Caestocorbula wailesiana21 sites
- Corbula densata19 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata19 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus17 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus16 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata15 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus14 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis14 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta13 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta13 sites
- Pitar securiformis13 sites
- Spisula jacksonensis13 sites
- Alveinus minutus12 sites
- Capulus americanus12 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata12 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis12 sites
- Endopachys maclurii11 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis11 sites
- Gastropoda11 sites
- Hipponix11 sites
- Tellinidae11 sites
- Kapalmerella arenicola10 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta10 sites
- Actinopterygii9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Natica permunda, 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- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area15
- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi12
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda11
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region4
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- Timing of latest Eocene molluscan extinction patterns in Mississippi1
Each of the 46 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 permunda
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Harris, G
- Licence
- CC0
- 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. (Conrad 1854)