Margaritidae indet.
Margaritidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · Public Domain · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Margaritidae indet. on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Margaritidae indet. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Margaritidae indet. and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Margaritidae indet. and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Bathymodiolus satsopensis1 site
- Bathymodiolus willapaensis1 site
- Buccinidae1 site
- Cerithiopsidae1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Chiton alveolus1 site
- Conchocele bisecta1 site
- Conchocele taylori1 site
- Depressigyra1 site
- Eulimidae1 site
- Eurete1 site
- Farrea1 site
- Hexactinella1 site
- Mytilidae1 site
- Pliocardia1 site
- Provanna antiqua1 site
- Radiolaria1 site
- Retiskenea statura1 site
- Scaphandridae1 site
- Solariella1 site
- Solariellinidae indet.1 site
- Xanthodaphne campbellae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Margaritidae indet., and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Margaritidae indet.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Margaritidae indet. 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 itFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.