Metulella

Metulella

Uncredited · 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
ColumbellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 32 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 43 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 43 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–9.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.3–8.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.8–8.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.3–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–6.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.9–6.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11.63 Mya3.6 Mya16.5 Mya2.1 Mya

43 occurrences of Metulella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

43 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

6 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.28°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.08°WCoatzacoalcos — 18.14°N, 94.41°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WRio Gurabo — 19.45°N, 71.17°W

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The named rock units Metulella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metulella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Metulella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

335 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Metulella, 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

6 references

Each of the 43 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 content1

Picture of Metulella

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 Metulella 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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What may have been alongside itColumbellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1873