Rimella supraplicata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RimellaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Strombidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strombidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Strombidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
45 occurrences of Rimella supraplicata 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
45 occurrencesThese 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
10 formations
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group11
- Ardath Formation · La Jolla Group9
- Santiago Formation5
- Matilija Formation4
- Tejon Formation3
- Cowlitz Formation3
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The named rock units Rimella supraplicata 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.
Rimella supraplicata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Rimella supraplicata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
402 taxa- Tejonia moragai18 sites
- Ficopsis remondii14 sites
- Caryocorbula parilis11 sites
- Crassatella uvasana11 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii10 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) rosecanyonensis10 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus10 sites
- Paraseraphs erraticus9 sites
- Phalium (Semicassis) tuberculiformis9 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei9 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii9 sites
- Turritella uvasana9 sites
- Turritella uvasana neopleura9 sites
- Bittium cliffensis8 sites
- Pleurofusia fresnoensis8 sites
- Turritella buwaldana8 sites
- Fusus (Hemifusus) cooperii7 sites
- Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) domenginica7 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum7 sites
- Turritella uvasana applinae7 sites
- Amaurellina moragai6 sites
- Antigona kelloggi6 sites
- Eocernina hannibali6 sites
- Fasciolaria bilineata6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Rimella supraplicata, 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
9 references- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California18
- West Coast North America record of the Paleogene marine stromboid gastropod Rimella and paleobiogeography of the genus9
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California5
- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington4
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California3
- Oligocene biostratigraphy of the Santa Barbara embayment, California: Part II: Mollusca from the Turritella variata zone2
- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California2
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California1
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington1
Each of the 45 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 Rimella supraplicata
- 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 Rimella supraplicata 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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What may have been alongside itRimella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)