Margarita

Margarita

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
PectinibranchiaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 253 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 129 ka.

Permian — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 15 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 15 occurrences265–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–88 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–62 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences62–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–8.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.8–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences254.14 Mya774 ka265 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Margarita on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

15 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

10 formations

Devil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WEtchegoin — 36.28°N, 120.30°WEtchegoin — 36.00°N, 120.27°WJacalitos — 36.04°N, 120.39°WJacalitos — 36.06°N, 120.45°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.47°EKangilia — 70.33°N, 53.08°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WZechstein — 50.90°N, 12.11°E

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The named rock units Margarita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Margarita and its relatives

Eocene

Where Margarita and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

552 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Margarita, 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 15 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 Margarita

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPectinibranchia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1814