Columella sp.
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 least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Columella sp. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene17%
- Pleistocene83%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Columella sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Columella sp. and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Columella sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
268 taxa- Vallonia costata4 sites
- Columella columella3 sites
- Dicrostonyx3 sites
- Pupilla muscorum3 sites
- Succinea3 sites
- Trochulus3 sites
- Bufo2 sites
- Catinella2 sites
- Catostomidae2 sites
- Cyprinidae2 sites
- Discus2 sites
- Esox2 sites
- Hendersonia2 sites
- Microtus2 sites
- Microtus arvalis2 sites
- Microtus pennsylvanicus2 sites
- Microtus xanthognathus2 sites
- Mictomys borealis2 sites
- Mimomys2 sites
- Mustela erminea2 sites
- Myodes2 sites
- Pisidium2 sites
- Planorbis2 sites
- Sorex2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Columella sp., 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
5 references- Early Middle Pleistocene mammalian faunas from Karlich (Kaerlich) and Miesenheim I and their biostratigraphical implications2
- Pre-Late Wisconsinan Pleistocene biota from southeastern Michigan, U.S.A.1
- Neogene Mollusken aus dem Tertiärbecken bei Afyon, Tuerkey1
- Late Pleistocene land Mollusca in the Channel Islands1
- The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia1
Each of the 6 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 sp.
- 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.