Oenopota

Oenopota is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

Oenopota

W.H. Dall · 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
MangeliidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 32 of 47 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 32 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Oenopota 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

47 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

16 formations

Tachilni — 54.98°N, 162.85°WTachilni — 54.79°N, 163.36°WTachilni — 54.95°N, 163.05°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WNarrrow Cape Formaton — 56.54°N, 154.34°WGubik — 70.90°N, 155.96°WSaxicava Clay — 49.58°N, 57.93°WTentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°ESilberberg — 51.81°N, 11.82°EFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°W

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The named rock units Oenopota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oenopota and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Oenopota and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Oenopota, 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

26 references

Each of the 47 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. 14 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 Oenopota

Credit
W.H. Dall
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oenopota 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. Mörch 1852