Notadusta

Notadusta is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Notadusta

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CypraeidaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 52 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 17 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences52 Mya774 ka57 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Notadusta on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

17 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

7 formations

Marnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.75°N, 1.10°WFalun de St. Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.30°S, 176.25°EPuebla — 38.32°S, 144.32°EFyansford — 38.23°S, 145.02°EFalun d'Escornebeou et Sainte Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WPakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°E

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The named rock units Notadusta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notadusta and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Notadusta and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

494 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Notadusta, 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

Each of the 17 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 Notadusta

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Notadusta 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.

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.

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What may have been alongside itCypraeidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schilder 1935)