Marginella

Marginella is a very large genus of small tropical and temperate sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Marginellinae of the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. It is a type of genus family.

Marginella

Adzivo · 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.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 256 million years on record.

The record covers at least 256.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 417 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 417 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 417 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 417 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 417 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 417 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 417 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 417 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 417 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 417 occurrencesEocene — about 97 of 417 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 417 occurrencesMiocene — about 152 of 417 occurrencesPliocene — about 55 of 417 occurrencesPleistocene — about 85 of 417 occurrences265–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–44 Mya — about 8 occurrences44–35 Mya — about 84 occurrences35–27 Mya — about 13 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 49 occurrences18–8.8 Mya — about 63 occurrences8.8–0 Mya — about 195 occurrences256.8 Mya11.7 ka265 Mya0 Mya

417 occurrences of Marginella 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

417 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

90 formations

Cercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.70°N, 80.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 30.36°N, 83.99°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.89°WCastle Hayne — 34.90°N, 77.55°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 34.75°N, 77.43°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.70°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBlakeley — 47.55°N, 122.34°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ECanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 31.40°N, 93.70°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WLower Menkrawit — 1.03°N, 118.98°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°EWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°W

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The named rock units Marginella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 66 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 99 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Marginella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Marginella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,533 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 169 sites for Marginella, 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

104 references

Each of the 417 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. 92 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 Marginella

Credit
Adzivo
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Marginella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1799