Retilaskeya

Retilaskeya is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Newtoniellidae. It was described by Marshall, in 1978.

Retilaskeya

MNHN - Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. - 2020 · 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
CerithiopsidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cerithiopsidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiopsidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiopsidae
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 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 17 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPliocene — about 8 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 17 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Retilaskeya on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

17 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

10 formations

Talparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WOrtovero Clay — 44.10°N, 8.23°EDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°W

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The named rock units Retilaskeya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Retilaskeya and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Retilaskeya and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

848 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Retilaskeya, 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

3 references

Each of the 17 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. 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 Retilaskeya

Credit
MNHN - Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. - 2020
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Retilaskeya 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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What may have been alongside itCerithiopsidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marshall 1978