Ringicula ventricosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RingiculaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ringicula
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ringiculidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ringiculidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
10 occurrences of Ringicula ventricosa on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
10 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Ringicula ventricosa 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.
Ringicula ventricosa and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ringicula ventricosa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
790 taxa- Hiatella arctica9 sites
- Lucinoma borealis8 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima7 sites
- Ringicula buccinea7 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii7 sites
- Sveltia7 sites
- Amalda obsoleta6 sites
- Asthenotoma6 sites
- Babylonella6 sites
- Crenilabium6 sites
- Ficus conditus6 sites
- Fusiturris6 sites
- Mitrella6 sites
- Modiolula phaseolina6 sites
- Roxania6 sites
- Spaniodontella6 sites
- Tectonatica6 sites
- Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima6 sites
- Acteon (Acteon)5 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis5 sites
- Anachis (Costoanachis)5 sites
- Antalis5 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata5 sites
- Bathytoma5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ringicula ventricosa, 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- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae4
- Stratigraphic interpretation of the Neogene marine-continental record in the Maaseik well (49W0220) in the Roer Valley Graben, NE Belgium3
- Wood, 18482
- Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen)1
Each of the 10 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 Ringicula ventricosa
- 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 Ringicula ventricosa 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 itRingicula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1823)