Danilia

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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.

Sits inside

ChilodontaidaePBDB

Diet

grazerPBDB, for Seguenzioidea

Life habit

epifaunalPBDB, for Seguenzioidea

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Seguenzioidea

Vision

limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

• Paleocene32%
• Eocene9%
• Oligocene5%
• Miocene5%
• Pliocene45%
• Pleistocene5%

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.

Where Danilia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene. Draw the map

• Emarginula4 sites
• Acar3 sites
• Cerithium3 sites
• Fusinus3 sites
• Jujubinus3 sites
• Leucorhynchia3 sites
• Angaria2 sites
• Arcopsis2 sites
• Balcis2 sites
• Bernaya (Protocypraea) globuliformis2 sites
• Bittium2 sites
• Calliostoma2 sites
• Campanile2 sites
• Cerithiella2 sites
• Cerithiopsis2 sites
• Cidaris2 sites
• Circulus2 sites
• Clanculus2 sites
• Conomitra2 sites
• Dosina2 sites
• Eocypraea danica2 sites
• Eucycloscala ultima2 sites
• Glossus (Miocardiopsis)2 sites
• Hipponix2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Danilia, 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.

• The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 1: VetigastropodaLandau et al., 2003 · Paleontos · book/book chapter10
• A catalogue of Danian gastropods from the Baunekule facies, Faxe Formation, DenmarkLauridsen and Schnetler, 2014 · Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland Bulletin · journal article3
• Relationships of the Triassic Eucycloidea Koken, 1897 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) to modern genera such as Pagodatrochus, Calliotropis and Euchelus, based on morphology of the early shellBandel, 2010 · Bulletin of Geosciences · journal article3
• Eocene bivalves and gastropods from the Pallinup Siltstone, Western Australia, with new records from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern AustraliaDarragh and Kendrick, 2000 · Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria · journal article2
• La faune danienne de Vigny (Val-d’Oise, France): importance pour l’étude de la diversification des mollusques au début du TertiairePacaud et al., 2000 · Comptes Rendus de l ’Académie des Sciences,Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes, Paris, série II a · journal article1
• Presenza di «Ospiti boreali» (Mollusca, Gastropoda) nel Pleistocene di Contrada Case Alte (Villa S. Giovanni)Bellomo, 1993 · Bollettino della Societá Paleontologica Italiana · journal article1
• Une faune de fond dur du Bathyal supérieur dans le Miocène terminal des cordillères bétiques (Carboneras, SE Espagne)Barrier et al., 1991 · Mésogée · journal article1
• The Geology of the Waitaki SubdivisionGage, 1957 · New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin · serial monograph1

Each of the 22 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.

What may have been alongside itChilodontaidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brusina 1865)