Colubrariidae

Colubrariidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea. This family has no subfamilies.

Colubrariidae

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
BuccinoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 124 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 53 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 53 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 53 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 53 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 53 occurrencesMiocene — about 32 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 53 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 14 occurrences14–9.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences125.77 Mya774 ka135 Mya0 Mya

53 occurrences of Colubrariidae 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

53 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

17 formations

Pirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ETentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EKincaid — 31.36°N, 96.04°WKincaid — 31.37°N, 96.69°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WNakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°EWills Point — 29.96°N, 97.45°WFalun de Leognan — 44.66°N, 0.56°WSámsonháza — 47.87°N, 18.77°ECook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°W

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The named rock units Colubrariidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colubrariidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Colubrariidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,732 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Colubrariidae, 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

21 references

Each of the 53 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. 9 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 Colubrariidae

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Colubrariidae 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

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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. Dall 1904