Odostomia

Odostomia is the most speciose genus of minute sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks. This genus is placed in the family Pyramidellidae in the subfamily Odostomiinae. There are several hundred species in this diverse genus

Odostomia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PyramidellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 6 of 512 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 40 of 512 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 109 of 512 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 59 of 512 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 134 of 512 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 44 of 512 occurrencesPleistocene — about 109 of 512 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 11 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 14 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 10 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 13 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 14 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 14 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 11 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 11 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 20 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 24 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 22 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 24 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 11 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 12 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 19 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 37 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 48 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 39 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 126 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

512 occurrences of Odostomia 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

512 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

116 formations

Selsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°ECook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 31.32°N, 95.46°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.65°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.52°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.08°N, 1.17°WLondon Clay — 51.23°N, 0.85°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 31.97°N, 89.43°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WCoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.47°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ERed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WCambay Shale — 21.45°N, 73.13°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°EUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°ELillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°E

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The named rock units Odostomia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 92 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 171 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Odostomia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Odostomia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,657 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 261 sites for Odostomia, 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

142 references

Each of the 512 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. 130 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 Odostomia

Credit
nobody named on the record
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1817