Miraclathurella

Miraclathurella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Miraclathurella

G.W. Tryon · 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
PseudomelatomidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 4.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 25 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 42 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–6.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.6–6.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.6–4.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.2–3.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–3.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–669 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.246 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya274 ka

42 occurrences of Miraclathurella 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

42 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

9 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.09°N, 81.83°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WShark Hole Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.74°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.22°N, 77.58°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°W

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The named rock units Miraclathurella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Miraclathurella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Miraclathurella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

899 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Miraclathurella, 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 42 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 Miraclathurella

Credit
G.W. Tryon
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itPseudomelatomidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodring 1928)