Admete viridula
Admete viridula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- AdmetePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
14 occurrences of Admete viridula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
14 occurrences- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene93%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Admete viridula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Admete viridula and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Admete viridula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
355 taxa- Cryptonatica affinis10 sites
- Natica7 sites
- Hiatella arctica6 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis6 sites
- Mytilus edulis6 sites
- Boreotrophon clathratus5 sites
- Buccinum undatum5 sites
- Curtitoma decussata5 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea5 sites
- Nassarius5 sites
- Arctica islandica4 sites
- Astarte4 sites
- Bela4 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica4 sites
- Lentidium complanatum4 sites
- Littorina4 sites
- Macoma4 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata4 sites
- Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus4 sites
- Astarte borealis3 sites
- Bela decussata tjornesensis3 sites
- Chrysodomus (Sipho)3 sites
- Cyclocardia borealis3 sites
- Cyrtodaria angusta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Admete viridula, 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- Unpublished census data for the Mollusca of the Tjornes sequence, Iceland6
- Contributions to the Quaternary geology of northern West Greenland especially the raised marine deposits3
- Molluscan palaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap Kobenhavn Formation, North Greenland1
- Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland1
- The Mollusca of the Wexford Gravels (Pleistocene), South-East Ireland1
- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California1
- Wood, 18821
Each of the 14 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 Admete viridula
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Admete viridula 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.
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 itAdmete through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fabricius 1780)