Admetula

Admetula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Admetula

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 58 occurrencesPaleocene — about 9 of 58 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 38 of 58 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 58 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 58 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 7 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences61.66 Mya3.6 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

58 occurrences of Admetula on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

58 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

21 formations

Keasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 45.74°N, 123.27°WKeasey — 45.72°N, 123.20°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ENancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.06°N, 81.80°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EBushnell Rock — 43.27°N, 123.15°WMeganos — 37.92°N, 121.77°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°EJuncal — 34.77°N, 119.15°WLodo — 36.36°N, 120.44°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WAgueguexquite — 18.15°N, 94.42°WMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WCoaledo — 43.34°N, 124.37°WBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°ELincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°W

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The named rock units Admetula 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.

Admetula and its relatives

Eocene

Where Admetula and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,198 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Admetula, 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

23 references

Each of the 58 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Admetula

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Admetula 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 itCancellariidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1889)