Donaldina

Dondaldina is an extinct genus of high-spired sea snails from the Carboniferous.

Donaldina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DonaldinidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 196 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 248.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.2 Mya to 247 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 131 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 131 occurrencesDevonian — about 4 of 131 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 84 of 131 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 38 of 131 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 131 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 131 occurrences453–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–383 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences383–376 Mya — about 2 occurrences376–369 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–355 Mya — about 2 occurrences355–348 Mya — about 3 occurrences348–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–334 Mya — about 5 occurrences334–327 Mya — about 13 occurrences327–320 Mya — about 8 occurrences320–313 Mya — about 6 occurrences313–306 Mya — about 26 occurrences306–299 Mya — about 20 occurrences299–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–285 Mya — about 8 occurrences285–278 Mya — about 4 occurrences278–271 Mya — about 7 occurrences271–264 Mya — about 7 occurrences264–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–250 Mya — about 13 occurrences250–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence445.2 Mya248.6 Mya453 Mya243 Mya

131 occurrences of Donaldina on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

131 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

58 formations

Hueco — 32.37°N, 106.08°WHueco — 31.79°N, 105.91°WHueco — 32.29°N, 106.07°WHueco — 32.40°N, 105.95°WVerkhnii Uslon — 55.36°N, 49.09°EVerkhnii Uslon — 55.17°N, 48.63°ERustler — 31.60°N, 104.23°WRustler — 31.65°N, 104.21°WRustler — 31.53°N, 104.23°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.70°WAllegheny — 40.88°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 40.90°N, 80.85°WAllegheny — 41.00°N, 80.85°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WConemaugh — 39.69°N, 82.03°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WDangarfield — 32.05°S, 150.92°EDangarfield — 32.03°S, 150.97°EFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WHotwells — 51.22°N, 0.63°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 39.73°N, 82.03°WGlenshaw — 39.15°N, 80.04°WMartin — 34.88°N, 112.07°WMartin — 34.45°N, 111.84°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 37.82°N, 91.56°WDaye — 25.57°N, 106.76°EFort Scott Limestone — 40.82°N, 89.78°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.84°N, 94.71°WLost Branch — 38.25°N, 94.69°WLost Branch — 35.94°N, 96.00°WAmsden — 44.17°N, 106.85°WAmsden — 42.64°N, 108.71°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPark City — 43.17°N, 109.17°WOkaw — 38.08°N, 89.93°WHaney Limestone — 38.08°N, 89.97°WEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°ESte. Genevieve — 40.52°N, 87.82°WAppanoose — 38.70°N, 90.39°WKrebs — 37.85°N, 94.52°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°W

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The named rock units Donaldina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Donaldina and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Donaldina and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,450 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 108 sites for Donaldina, 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

48 references

Each of the 131 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. 36 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Donaldina

Credit
RealGatba
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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. Knight 1933