Naticarius

Naticarius is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Naticarius

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NaticinaePBDB
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 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 371 occurrencesPaleocene — about 16 of 371 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 83 of 371 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 371 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 161 of 371 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 73 of 371 occurrencesPleistocene — about 29 of 371 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 6 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 11 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 27 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 15 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 16 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 26 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 20 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 32 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 30 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 32 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 58 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

371 occurrences of Naticarius on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

371 occurrences

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

97 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.82°N, 87.37°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.94°N, 88.06°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.91°N, 87.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.53°N, 87.32°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WPirabas — 0.70°S, 47.51°WPirabas — 1.21°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.14°S, 47.15°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.34°WPirabas — 0.84°S, 47.09°WPirabas — 2.41°S, 44.42°WPirabas — 1.66°S, 45.37°WPirabas — 2.88°S, 41.67°WPirabas — 3.09°S, 41.78°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.14°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WTalparo — 10.63°N, 61.28°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.25°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WPorters Creek — 32.13°N, 87.40°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.43°WJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WJimol — 11.89°N, 71.37°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WWills Point — 30.70°N, 97.07°WWills Point — 30.13°N, 97.47°WWills Point — 30.23°N, 97.52°W

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The named rock units Naticarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 73 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Naticarius and its relatives

Miocene

Where Naticarius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,193 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 215 sites for Naticarius, and this reads all 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

77 references

Each of the 371 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. 65 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

Media content2

Picture of Naticarius

Credit
Nhobgood Nick Hobgood
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNaticinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dumeril 1806)