Ophiodermella graciosana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphiodermellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
21 occurrences of Ophiodermella graciosana on record. 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
21 occurrences- Miocene3%
- Pliocene44%
- Pleistocene52%
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
- Careaga Sandstone Formation11
- Etchegoin Formation3
- Merced Formation2
- Santa Clara Formation1
- San Diego Formation1
- Fernando Formation1
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The named rock units Ophiodermella graciosana 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.
Found in the same rock
268 taxa- Callianax biplicata14 sites
- Caesia californiana13 sites
- Caesia moraniana12 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana11 sites
- Leukoma staleyi11 sites
- Mitrella gausapata11 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis10 sites
- Macoma nasuta kelseyi9 sites
- Anadara trilineata7 sites
- Tresus nuttallii7 sites
- Turritella cooperi7 sites
- Cryptomya californica6 sites
- Lucinisca nuttallii anticedens6 sites
- Mactromeris hemphillii6 sites
- Nutricola tantilla6 sites
- Saccella taphria6 sites
- Callithaca tenerrima5 sites
- Heteroclidus punctata5 sites
- Lucinoma annulata5 sites
- Megasurcula carpenteriana5 sites
- Moniliopsis graciosana mercedensis5 sites
- Clinocardium (Clinocardium) meekianum4 sites
- Dendostrea vespertina4 sites
- Dosinia ponderosa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Ophiodermella graciosana, 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
8 references- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California10
- Late Pliocene mollusks from San Francisco Peninsula, California, and their paleogeographic significance3
- The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California3
- The upper Pliocene San Diego Formation and the occurrence of Carcharodon megalodon at La Joya, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico1
- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California1
- Fauna of the Fernando of Los Angeles1
- Descriptions of new species of fossil Mollusca from the later marine Neocene of California1
- New and characteristic species of fossil mollusks from the oil-bearing Tertiary formations of Santa Barbara County, California1
Each of the 21 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 Ophiodermella graciosana
- 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 Ophiodermella graciosana 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arnold 1908)