Neoterebra protexta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeoterebraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Terebridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Terebridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Terebridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Neoterebra protexta 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene88%
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
5 formations
- Waccamaw Formation2
- Caloosahatchee Formation2
- Bermont Formation1
- Pamlico Formation1
- Fort Thompson Formation1
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The named rock units Neoterebra protexta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neoterebra protexta and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Neoterebra protexta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
602 taxa- Astyris lunata5 sites
- Crassinella lunulata5 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima5 sites
- Timoclea grus5 sites
- Abra aequalis4 sites
- Chione cancellata4 sites
- Donax fossor4 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans4 sites
- Littoraria irrorata4 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata4 sites
- Pleuromeris tridentata4 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa4 sites
- Semele bellastriata4 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa3 sites
- Angulus texanus3 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi3 sites
- Bornia triangula3 sites
- Brachidontes exustus3 sites
- Bulla striata3 sites
- Busycon3 sites
- Callucina keenae3 sites
- Calyptraea centralis3 sites
- Carditamera floridana3 sites
- Cerithium3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Neoterebra protexta, 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
7 references- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda2
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida1
- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America1
- Geology of the Western Everglades Area, Southern Florida1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida1
- Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California1
Each of the 8 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 Neoterebra protexta
- 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 Neoterebra protexta 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.
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What may have been alongside itNeoterebra through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1845)