Mitridae

Mitridae, known as mitres or mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.

Mitridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
mitre shellPBDB
Sits inside
MitroideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 917 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 917 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 29 of 917 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 203 of 917 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 42 of 917 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 330 of 917 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 123 of 917 occurrencesPleistocene — about 170 of 917 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 13 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 7 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 11 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 11 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 15 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 26 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 56 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 75 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 21 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 19 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 12 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 18 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 67 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 82 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 71 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 58 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 107 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 227 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka108 Mya0 Mya

917 occurrences of Mitridae 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

917 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

221 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ECook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 30.02°N, 97.07°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.14°N, 95.92°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WRed Bluff — 31.84°N, 88.75°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.60°N, 87.55°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WWaimanalo — 21.70°N, 157.98°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WMoodys Branch — 32.29°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.03°N, 92.02°WMoodys Branch — 31.26°N, 93.82°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.82°N, 92.00°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WLower Menkrawit — 1.03°N, 118.98°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°ENancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WShimajiri — 26.20°N, 127.70°EShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.72°EShimajiri — 26.28°N, 127.78°ELa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WMonte Leon — 50.37°S, 69.50°WMonte Leon — 50.23°S, 68.92°WMonte Leon — 49.22°S, 68.00°WMonte Leon — 50.10°S, 69.12°WMonte Leon — 50.32°S, 68.86°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.90°N, 96.39°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.23°N, 96.04°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WNyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ETejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°W

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The named rock units Mitridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 197 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 203 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mitridae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mitridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,030 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 405 sites for Mitridae, 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

246 references

Each of the 917 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. 234 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 Mitridae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Copyrighted free use
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Mitridae 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.

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. Swainson 1831