Ampullinidae

Ampullinidae are a mostly extinct taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda.

Ampullinidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmpullinoideaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 237 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1381 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 1381 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 30 of 1381 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 1381 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 143 of 1381 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 158 of 1381 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 46 of 1381 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 169 of 1381 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 50 of 1381 occurrencesEocene — about 457 of 1381 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 141 of 1381 occurrencesMiocene — about 159 of 1381 occurrencesPliocene — about 16 of 1381 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 1381 occurrences252–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–235 Mya — about 19 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 13 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 4 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 3 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 20 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 141 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 98 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 41 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 6 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 12 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 12 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 14 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 43 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 35 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 43 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 43 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 35 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 104 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 206 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 172 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 106 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 95 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 60 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 52 occurrences241.464 Mya3.6 Mya252 Mya0 Mya

1,381 occurrences of Ampullinidae 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

1,381 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

270 formations

Llajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.77°WTataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.57°N, 10.35°ETataouine — 32.77°N, 10.48°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.37°EAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WCassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.10°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.25°ECercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WJuncal — 34.77°N, 119.16°WJuncal — 34.47°N, 119.02°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.71°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.74°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.75°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.69°N, 117.61°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.93°N, 82.44°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WArcadia — 30.30°N, 84.28°WArcadia — 30.24°N, 84.23°WArcadia — 30.62°N, 84.91°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WArcadia — 30.77°N, 84.82°WShekhan — 33.58°N, 71.83°EShekhan — 33.60°N, 71.90°EShekhan — 33.60°N, 71.51°EShekhan — 33.48°N, 71.39°EJalama — 34.52°N, 120.39°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.80°N, 46.25°EDhruma — 25.50°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°EInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.02°N, 82.64°WInglis Limestone — 29.05°N, 82.45°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WInglis Limestone — 28.92°N, 82.46°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.21°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.56°WBudden Canyon — 40.44°N, 122.57°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WPrairie Bluff — 33.89°N, 88.96°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WOsmington Oolite — 50.60°N, 2.45°WKirkkavak — 39.93°N, 32.87°EKirkkavak — 39.65°N, 32.29°EKirkkavak — 39.65°N, 32.29°EManiobra — 33.63°N, 115.68°WChari — 23.30°N, 69.97°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EGalala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.75°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.74°WMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WDrug — 29.95°N, 70.12°E

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The named rock units Ampullinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 246 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 221 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ampullinidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ampullinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,349 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 879 sites for Ampullinidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

295 references

Each of the 1,381 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. 283 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 Ampullinidae

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ampullinidae 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 itAmpullinoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1918