Trivia arctica

Trivia arctica, the northern cowrie, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Triviidae, the trivias. This is a similar species to Trivia monacha and it often occurs in the same areas. The name Trivia means "common" and the word arctica means "of the arctic".

Trivia arctica

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.0–2.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.3–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–963 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences963 ka–274 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15.98 Mya1.8 Mya20.9 Mya274 ka

7 occurrences of Trivia arctica 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

7 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

3 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ECalabriano — 45.03°N, 10.02°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°E

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The named rock units Trivia arctica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trivia arctica and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Trivia arctica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

564 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Trivia arctica, 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

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Trivia arctica

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Trivia arctica 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itTrivia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pultenay 1799)