Massyla

Massyla

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 73 occurrencesMiocene — about 48 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 73 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Massyla 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

73 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

25 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WTamiami — 26.72°N, 81.61°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 28.29°N, 81.41°WTamiami — 26.01°N, 81.13°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 27.32°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.53°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.85°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WTuira — 8.22°N, 77.58°WTuira — 8.35°N, 78.07°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WAngostura — 0.80°N, 78.93°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WPenita — 8.00°N, 82.97°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WOnzole — 0.95°N, 79.74°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WArmuelles — 8.27°N, 82.87°WLos Perdices Shale — 10.99°N, 74.95°WChagres Sandstone — 9.17°N, 80.28°W

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The named rock units Massyla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Massyla and its relatives

Miocene

Where Massyla and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,337 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Massyla, 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

29 references

Each of the 73 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. 17 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 Massyla

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Massyla was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1854)