Mitrella

Mitrella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove shells or dove snails.

Mitrella

Jan Delsing · 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
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 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 533 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 533 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 56 of 533 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 533 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 177 of 533 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 88 of 533 occurrencesPleistocene — about 194 of 533 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 23 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 11 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 33 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 33 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 30 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 30 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 14 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 19 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 98 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 175 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

533 occurrences of Mitrella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

533 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

113 formations

Chipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.55°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.78°N, 118.35°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.88°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.90°N, 120.52°WKirkwood — 39.10°N, 74.72°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 39.47°N, 75.35°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WKirkwood — 39.15°N, 74.69°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ERed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°W

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The named rock units Mitrella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 98 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mitrella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mitrella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,720 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 325 sites for Mitrella, and this reads 240 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

137 references

Each of the 533 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. 125 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 Mitrella

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mitrella 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. (Risso 1826)