Metula

Metula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Colubrariidae.

Metula

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
BuccinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 127 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 127 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 24 of 127 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 127 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 48 of 127 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 127 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 127 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 12 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 13 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 17 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 23 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences61.66 Mya774 ka67 Mya0 Mya

127 occurrences of Metula 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

127 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

48 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WCook Mountain — 31.27°N, 95.61°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBelmont — 12.50°N, 61.44°WCharco Azul — 8.55°N, 83.00°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WSeguin — 30.23°N, 97.42°WSeguin — 30.33°N, 97.37°WSeguin — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 30.60°N, 96.61°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.22°N, 77.58°WTuira — 8.20°N, 77.71°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WTuatua Limestone — 17.47°S, 177.05°EMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.07°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EForest Hill — 30.98°N, 88.73°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WChira — 5.20°S, 80.63°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°W

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The named rock units Metula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Metula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,456 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Metula, 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

36 references

Each of the 127 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. 24 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 Metula

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

No 3D scan of Metula 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 itBuccinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams and Adams 1853