Myurella

Myurella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Terebrinae of the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

Myurella

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
TerebrinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Terebridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Terebridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Terebridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 59 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 59 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 44 of 59 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 59 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 59 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.2–8.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.1–6.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.9–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences27.3 Mya774 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

59 occurrences of Myurella 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

59 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

17 formations

Kama — 19.02°N, 95.15°EKama — 19.50°N, 95.38°EKama — 19.62°N, 95.30°EKama — 19.52°N, 95.47°EQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°EBaghmara — 25.18°N, 90.67°EBaghmara — 25.27°N, 90.23°ESingu — 20.93°N, 94.85°ESingu — 19.40°N, 95.23°EGaj — 23.33°N, 68.85°EGaj — 23.22°N, 68.75°EGaj — 23.35°N, 68.82°EChasra — 23.42°N, 68.75°EChengapara — 25.33°N, 90.23°EJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WCharco Azul — 8.55°N, 83.00°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WSitsayan — 21.10°N, 94.80°ESitsayan — 20.48°N, 94.33°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECabatuan — 10.86°N, 122.50°ETagpochau — 15.18°N, 145.76°ENari — 30.17°N, 67.00°EPalembang — 2.92°S, 104.75°E

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The named rock units Myurella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myurella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Myurella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

634 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Myurella, 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

16 references

Each of the 59 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. 4 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 Myurella

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

No 3D scan of Myurella 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 itTerebrinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hinds 1844)