Typhina alata

No picture of Typhina alata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Typhina alata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 10 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesPliocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.6–9.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.1–8.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.5–7.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.3–3.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.7–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya20.9 Mya3.1 Mya

12 occurrences of Typhina alata 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

12 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

8 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WPicaderos — 0.80°N, 78.93°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WLimónes — 10.00°N, 83.22°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°W

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The named rock units Typhina alata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Typhina alata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Typhina alata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

365 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Typhina alata, 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

7 references

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 content0

No picture of Typhina alata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Typhina alata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Typhina alata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itTyphina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1850)