Gibbula

Gibbula is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Gibbula

tato grasso · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
CanthardinaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 201 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 201 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 201 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 201 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 201 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 86 of 201 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 24 of 201 occurrencesPleistocene — about 66 of 201 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 6 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 12 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 16 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 41 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 15 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 87 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

201 occurrences of Gibbula on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

201 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

40 formations

Rhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ENorwich Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°ERound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WNavidad — 44.65°S, 74.58°WSkalica — 48.48°N, 16.65°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EGelingseh — 0.98°N, 117.97°EMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.23°S, 68.92°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ETims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone — 32.65°S, 115.63°EAquia — 38.70°N, 76.97°WAquia — 38.35°N, 77.30°WBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°EKutai Basin — 0.17°N, 117.44°EVienna Basin — 47.95°N, 16.20°EAksucay — 37.27°N, 30.78°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Emarly chalk — 51.28°N, 21.90°ESnatolskaya — 58.50°N, 159.00°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.43°N, 2.15°ESan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°W

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The named rock units Gibbula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 124 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gibbula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gibbula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,236 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Gibbula, 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

74 references

Each of the 201 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. 62 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 Gibbula

Credit
tato grasso
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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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What may have been alongside itCanthardinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Risso 1826)