Columbarium

Columbarium is a genus of deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Columbariidae, the pagoda shells.

Columbarium

GrahamBould · 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
ColumbariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 16 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 16 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61.66 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya11 Mya

16 occurrences of Columbarium on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

16 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

13 formations

Pebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°ELodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EAngahook — 38.38°S, 144.25°EGlen Aire Clay — 38.83°S, 143.48°EJan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°ESan Julián — 47.13°S, 66.05°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ENavidad — 44.65°S, 74.58°WIpún Beds — 44.61°S, 74.76°WKings Park — 31.96°S, 115.83°EHampden — 45.32°S, 170.82°E

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The named rock units Columbarium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Columbarium and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Columbarium and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

499 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Columbarium, 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

11 references

Each of the 16 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 content2

Picture of Columbarium

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
tdr125
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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. von Martens 1881