Benthomangelia
Benthomangelia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

M.M. Schepman · Public Domain · 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
- MangeliidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
41 occurrences of Benthomangelia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
41 occurrencesThese 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 Benthomangelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Benthomangelia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Benthomangelia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
702 taxa- Lyrotyphis28 sites
- Asthenotoma27 sites
- Babylonella27 sites
- Fusiturris27 sites
- Gemmula (Gemmula)27 sites
- Lentigodentalium27 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita27 sites
- Nassarius27 sites
- Ringicula buccinea27 sites
- Streptodictyon27 sites
- Turritella27 sites
- Unedogemmula27 sites
- Varicorbula gibba27 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella27 sites
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)26 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata26 sites
- Naticidae26 sites
- Parvicardium26 sites
- Spiroplectammina carinata26 sites
- Conus (Conolithes)25 sites
- Dentalium (Pseudantilis)25 sites
- Limopsis25 sites
- Volvulella (Volvulella)25 sites
- Cibicides dutemplei24 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Benthomangelia, 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
5 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae36
- Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen)2
- A late Oligocene molluscan fauna and Oligocene coastal outcrops from Vilsund, NW Denmark1
- New records and species of molluscs from Tertiary cold-seep carbonates in Washington State, USA1
- The Marine Gram Formation at Gram, Denmark: Late Miocene Geology and Palaeontology1
Each of the 41 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 Benthomangelia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- M.M. Schepman
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Benthomangelia 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 itMangeliidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thiele 1925