Colwellia

No picture of Colwellia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Colwellia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NassariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 35 occurrencesPaleocene — about 11 of 35 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 24 of 35 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61.66 Mya41.03 Mya66.6 Mya37.1 Mya

35 occurrences of Colwellia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

35 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

6 formations

Reklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WSeguin — 30.23°N, 97.42°WSeguin — 30.80°N, 96.95°WSeguin — 30.88°N, 96.75°WSeguin — 30.33°N, 97.37°WSeguin — 30.26°N, 97.08°WWeches — 31.56°N, 94.50°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 30.69°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.53°N, 94.41°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WTukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°W

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The named rock units Colwellia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Colwellia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Colwellia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

638 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Colwellia, 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

Each of the 35 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 content0

No picture of Colwellia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Colwellia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNassariidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nuttall and Cooper 1973