Perplicaria perplexa
No picture of Perplicaria perplexa 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 Perplicaria perplexa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PerplicariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Perplicaria perplexa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene45%
- Pleistocene55%
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
2 formations
- Caloosahatchee Formation · Okeechobee Group2
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
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The named rock units Perplicaria perplexa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Perplicaria perplexa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Perplicaria perplexa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
432 taxa- Busycon2 sites
- Busycon (Echinofulgur) echinatum2 sites
- Cancellaria conradiana2 sites
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius2 sites
- Cyrtopleura costata2 sites
- Fasciolaria (Fasciolaria) apicina2 sites
- Ilyanassa2 sites
- Lithopoma2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Pterorhytis2 sites
- Pusula pediculus2 sites
- Pyrazisinus2 sites
- Scaphella floridana2 sites
- Subpterynotus textilis2 sites
- Tegula2 sites
- Vasum (Hystrivasum) horridum2 sites
- Xancus regina2 sites
- Abra aequalis1 site
- Acantholabia floridana1 site
- Acteocina1 site
- Acteocina candei1 site
- Aesopus1 site
- Americardia media1 site
- Anachis (Costoanachis)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Perplicaria perplexa, 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
3 referencesEach of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Perplicaria perplexa 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 Perplicaria perplexa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Perplicaria perplexa 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 itPerplicaria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1890