Ampullinopsis

Ampullinopsis is an extinct taxonomic genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. Sea snails of this genus lived from Paleocene epoch to Miocene epoch.

Ampullinopsis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 79 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 79 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 54 of 79 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 79 occurrencesMiocene60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 7 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 7 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 7 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 10 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya20.45 Mya60.2 Mya10.7 Mya

79 occurrences of Ampullinopsis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

79 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

29 formations

Arcadia — 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 — 30.20°N, 84.23°WArcadia — 30.62°N, 84.91°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WArcadia — 30.77°N, 84.82°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.02°N, 82.62°WInglis Limestone — 29.05°N, 82.45°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WInglis Limestone — 28.92°N, 82.46°WBaska — 29.95°N, 70.12°EQom — 31.52°N, 52.74°EFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EEptachorion — 39.96°N, 21.37°EEptachorion — 40.12°N, 21.22°EFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°ECaimito — 9.21°N, 79.91°WMancora — 5.20°S, 80.63°WManiyara Fort — 23.46°N, 68.60°ETokça — 29.59°N, 37.04°ETokça — 29.72°N, 38.12°ESagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°EMiyara — 24.51°N, 124.26°EMirador — 4.88°S, 80.97°WPosojra — 2.70°S, 80.25°WTiyon — 26.14°N, 67.79°ENari — 28.00°N, 66.00°EMarna di Possagno — 46.16°N, 13.37°ESuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WSan Sebastian — 18.25°N, 66.33°WSantiago — 8.10°N, 80.98°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°E

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The named rock units Ampullinopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ampullinopsis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Ampullinopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

825 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Ampullinopsis, 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

33 references

Each of the 79 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. 21 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 Ampullinopsis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ampullinopsis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1865)