Magellania

Magellania

British Museum · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
MagellaniinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Terebratellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 10 of 33 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 33 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 33 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Magellania 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

33 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

8 formations

Abrakurrie Limestone — 31.72°S, 127.22°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.90°S, 127.02°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 32.03°S, 126.03°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 32.08°S, 126.18°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.77°S, 127.02°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 32.07°S, 126.10°ELa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.68°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.68°WAscot — 32.10°S, 115.86°EAscot — 31.98°S, 115.94°EAscot — 32.10°S, 115.85°ESan Julian — 46.87°S, 66.95°WSan Julian — 47.08°S, 66.70°WMilburn Limestone — 46.07°S, 170.00°EWilson Bluff — 31.68°S, 129.00°ETubul — 37.83°S, 73.33°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.12°S, 71.34°W

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The named rock units Magellania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Magellania and its relatives

Miocene

Where Magellania and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

131 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Magellania, 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

11 references

Each of the 33 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 content2

Picture of Magellania

Credit
British Museum
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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

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What may have been alongside itMagellaniinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bayle 1880