Columella columella

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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.
Time the record covers
At most 763 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Columella columella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Columella columella and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Columella columella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Pupilla muscorum3 sites
- Trochulus3 sites
- Dicrostonyx2 sites
- Microtus2 sites
- Microtus arvalis2 sites
- Mimomys2 sites
- Succinea2 sites
- Vallonia2 sites
- Vallonia costata2 sites
- Anura1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Bufo1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Equus1 site
- Lymnaea1 site
- Mammuthus meridionalis1 site
- Myodes1 site
- Oxyloma1 site
- Planorbis1 site
- Pliomys1 site
- Praemegaceros verticornis1 site
- Pupa (Pupilla)1 site
- Sciuridae1 site
- Sorex1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Columella columella, 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
2 references- Early Middle Pleistocene mammalian faunas from Karlich (Kaerlich) and Miesenheim I and their biostratigraphical implications2
- Late Pleistocene land Mollusca in the Channel Islands1
Each of the 3 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 Columella columella
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Tyler Jackson
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.