Glossaulax reclusiana
Searched as Natica recluziana. The Paleobiology Database treats Glossaulax reclusiana as the accepted name.
No picture of Glossaulax reclusiana 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 Glossaulax reclusiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Recluz's moon snailPBDB
- Sits inside
- Neverita (Glossaulax)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.
331 occurrences of Glossaulax reclusiana on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
331 occurrences- Eocene17%
- Oligocene7%
- Miocene23%
- Pliocene23%
- Pleistocene30%
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
43 formations
- Vaqueros Formation42
- Pico Formation42
- Careaga Sandstone Formation24
- Eugene Formation22
- Towsley Formation18
- San Emigdio Formation · San Lorenzo Group16
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The named rock units Glossaulax reclusiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Glossaulax reclusiana and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Glossaulax reclusiana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
2,019 taxa- Turritella cooperi60 sites
- Balanus47 sites
- Callianax biplicata46 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni44 sites
- Mitrella gausapata43 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli42 sites
- Macoma nasuta42 sites
- Californiconus californicus40 sites
- Panopea generosa40 sites
- Saccella taphria39 sites
- Solen sicarius38 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum36 sites
- Cryptomya californica33 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium32 sites
- Anadara trilineata30 sites
- Tresus nuttallii30 sites
- Calyptraea filosa29 sites
- Lucinoma annulata29 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa29 sites
- Leporimetis obesa28 sites
- Megasurcula carpenteriana28 sites
- Caesia perpinguis27 sites
- Nutricola tantilla27 sites
- Crepidula nummaria25 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 277 sites for Glossaulax reclusiana, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
67 references- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology39
- The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California23
- The Oligocene marine molluscan fauna of the Eugene Formation in Oregon22
- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California21
- On the reconciliation of biostratigraphy and strontium isotope stratigraphy of three southern Californian Plio-Pleistocene formations16
- Early Pliocene marine climate and environment of the eastern Ventura Basin, Southern California16
- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California16
- Late Pliocene megafossils of the Pico Formation, Newhall area, Los Angeles County, Southern California10
- Late Pleistocene megafauna of Cayucos, California, and its zoogeographic significance10
- Naticidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda) from the Neogene of northwestern Ecuador9
- Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley9
- Oligocene marine mollusks from the Pittsburg Bluff Formation in Oregon8
Each of the 331 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. 55 further references are not listed. 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
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No picture of Glossaulax reclusiana 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 Glossaulax reclusiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glossaulax reclusiana was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itNeverita (Glossaulax) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1839)