Chrysallida

Chrysallida is a speciose genus of minute sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidellidae within the tribe Chrysallidini.

Chrysallida

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 160 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 160 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 160 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 95 of 160 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 160 occurrencesPleistocene — about 35 of 160 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 20 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 35 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 18 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 24 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 37 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

160 occurrences of Chrysallida on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

160 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

Mare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WRed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ESakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.86°WValiente — 9.21°N, 82.11°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WLillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°E

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The named rock units Chrysallida 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. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chrysallida and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chrysallida and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,024 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Chrysallida, and this reads all 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

42 references

Each of the 160 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. 30 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 Chrysallida

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itOdostomiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1856)