Testallium cepa

Testallium cepa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TestalliumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudolividae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pseudolividae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pseudolividae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 10 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.5–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27.3 Mya11.63 Mya34.4 Mya6.7 Mya

10 occurrences of Testallium cepa on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrences

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

6 formations

Navidad — 33.96°S, 71.87°WNavidad — 44.65°S, 74.58°WCamana — 15.94°S, 73.32°WCamana — 15.04°S, 74.97°WOtuma — 15.04°S, 74.97°WNavidad — 14.20°S, 76.12°WPisco — 14.20°S, 76.12°WChilcatay — 14.20°S, 75.67°W

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The named rock units Testallium cepa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Testallium cepa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Testallium cepa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Testallium cepa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

6 references

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 Testallium cepa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1846)