Gibberula

Gibberula is a genus of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae, previously placed in the family Marginellidae, the margin shells or marginellids.

Gibberula

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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CystiscidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cystiscidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cystiscidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cystiscidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 70 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 70 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 11 of 70 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 70 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 70 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 70 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 70 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Gibberula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

70 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

19 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°EAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WFalun d'Ormoy — 48.40°N, 2.15°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.28°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WGatuncillo — 9.20°N, 79.55°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°W

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The named rock units Gibberula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gibberula and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Gibberula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,038 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Gibberula, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

33 references

Each of the 70 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. 21 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 Gibberula

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gibberula was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itCystiscidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)