Ranella domenginica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RanellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Ranella domenginica on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
12 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Llajas Formation5
- Bateque Formation2
- Juncal Formation2
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group2
- Ardath Formation · La Jolla Group1
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The named rock units Ranella domenginica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ranella domenginica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ranella domenginica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
164 taxa- Eocernina hannibali8 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus7 sites
- Lyrischapa lajollaensis6 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) novacularis6 sites
- Turritella uvasana applinae6 sites
- Xenophora stocki6 sites
- Crassatella uvasana5 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla5 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum5 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki5 sites
- Phalium (Semicassis) tuberculiformis5 sites
- Rotularia (Rotularia) tejonense5 sites
- Surculites mathewsonii5 sites
- Turritella andersoni lawsoni5 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata4 sites
- Dentalium stentor4 sites
- Galeodea californica4 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata4 sites
- Pitar (Lamelliconcha) joaquinensis4 sites
- Rimella supraplicata4 sites
- Trochocyathus striatus4 sites
- Agnocardia sorrentoensis3 sites
- Clavilithes3 sites
- Clavilithes tabulatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ranella domenginica, 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
4 references- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California5
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California3
- Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico2
- Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California2
Each of the 12 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 Ranella domenginica
- 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 Ranella domenginica 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.
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What may have been alongside itRanella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vokes 1939)