Colpospira

Colpospira is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.

Colpospira

Lamarck, 1822 · CC0 · 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
TurritellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 17 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 32 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–8.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.3–5.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.8–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence41.03 Mya5.333 Mya49 Mya2.7 Mya

32 occurrences of Colpospira 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

32 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

12 formations

Shiratake — 32.42°N, 130.17°EFutagojima — 33.00°N, 129.50°EFutagojima — 32.68°N, 129.80°EFutagojima — 32.62°N, 129.55°EFyansford — 38.13°S, 144.28°EFyansford — 38.22°S, 145.03°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EColville Sandstone — 29.37°S, 127.12°EOkinoshima — 32.72°N, 132.55°EKoyagi — 33.00°N, 129.50°EMiike — 33.05°N, 130.48°EGellibrand — 38.57°S, 143.33°EJan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°EMiyara — 24.51°N, 124.28°E

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The named rock units Colpospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colpospira and its relatives

Eocene

Where Colpospira and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

266 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Colpospira, 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

8 references

Each of the 32 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 Colpospira

Credit
Lamarck, 1822
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Colpospira 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 itTurritellinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Donald 1900)