Neogastropoda
Neogastropoda is an order of aquatic snails, both freshwater and marine gastropod molluscs. Neogastropods and their close relatives, such as Tonnoidea and Cypraeoidea, form the clade Latrogastropoda.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LatrogastropodaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 248 million years on record.
The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 0 Mya.
12,000+ occurrences of Neogastropoda on record. 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
12,000 occurrences read- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
- Late Jurassicunder 1%
- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
- Late Cretaceous22%
- Paleocene7%
- Eocene27%
- Oligocene7%
- Miocene20%
- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene7%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.
Found in
at least 356 formations
- Prairie Bluff Formation512
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group460
- Ripley Formation407
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group395
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group338
- Providence Formation336
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The named rock units Neogastropoda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 332 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 774 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
2,352 taxa- Turritella67 sites
- Gastropoda56 sites
- Cadulus51 sites
- Retusa galba40 sites
- Dentalium39 sites
- Bivalvia38 sites
- Hipponix38 sites
- Naticidae38 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus37 sites
- Athleta petrosa36 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta36 sites
- Anthozoa35 sites
- Bullata semen35 sites
- Ficus34 sites
- Nuculana33 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis32 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta32 sites
- Buccitriton texanum30 sites
- Lunulitidae29 sites
- Acteon idoneus28 sites
- Turbinolia (Turbinolia) pharetra28 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella27 sites
- Bryozoa27 sites
- Endopachys maclurii26 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 312 sites for Neogastropoda, and this reads 240 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
at least 356 references- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida892
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain870
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)697
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations413
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain364
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf331
- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi316
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits275
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils240
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire239
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida223
- Geology of San Nicolas Island, California206
Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 344 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 content1
Picture of Neogastropoda
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- No machine-readable author provided. Bricktop assumed (based on copyright claims).
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLatrogastropoda through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Thiele 1929)