Natica radians
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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 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Natica radians on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Natica radians has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Natica radians and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Natica radians and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Modiola flemischi2 sites
- Ancilla latifasciata1 site
- Bathytoma hetzeli1 site
- Blastomussa simplicitexta1 site
- Borsonia germeraadi1 site
- Cassidea (Semicassis) bituminata1 site
- Cassidea (Semicassis) vandervierki1 site
- Cavolinia bituminata1 site
- Cavolinia marginata1 site
- Cavolinia mexicana1 site
- Cerithium flemischi1 site
- Cominella retifera1 site
- Conus (Leptoconus) petrolei1 site
- Cryptoconus carinatus1 site
- Cyphastrea serailia1 site
- Diacria mbaensis1 site
- Dipsastraea laxa1 site
- Elliptiolucina hetzeli1 site
- Fusus (Butonius) pectinatus1 site
- Goniastrea retiformis1 site
- Lathyrus (Peristernia) ktolemandoensis1 site
- Lathyrus (Peristernia) waisiuensis1 site
- Leptoria phrygia1 site
- Lima fulgurans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Natica radians, 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 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Natica radians
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Natica radians 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.
Keep going
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. Martin 1933