Patella hoffmani
No picture of Patella hoffmani was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Patella hoffmani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PatellaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Patellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Patellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Patellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Patellidae
Time the record covers
At most 1.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Patella hoffmani on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Patella hoffmani and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Patella hoffmani and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Arca4 sites
- Carditella4 sites
- Chamelea4 sites
- Corbula4 sites
- Donax haughtoni4 sites
- Fissurella4 sites
- Fusus4 sites
- Hespererato oppenheimeri4 sites
- Nassarius4 sites
- Nucella praecingulata4 sites
- Oxystele4 sites
- Striostrea margaritacea4 sites
- Turbo4 sites
- Turris4 sites
- Afrocominella capensis3 sites
- Amblychilepas scutellum3 sites
- Austriumphis dilemma3 sites
- Buccinum digitale3 sites
- Burnupena3 sites
- Calyptraea kilburni3 sites
- Chiton3 sites
- Clanculus3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Crepidula deprima3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Patella hoffmani, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Patella hoffmani was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Patella hoffmani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Patella hoffmani was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPatella through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kensley and Pether 1986