Seila

Seila is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.

Seila

Jan Delsing · 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
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 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 15 of 156 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 156 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 26 of 156 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 156 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 25 of 156 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 24 of 156 occurrencesPleistocene — about 57 of 156 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 20 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 63 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

156 occurrences of Seila 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

156 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

61 formations

Providence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WKirkwood — 39.10°N, 74.72°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.15°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°W

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The named rock units Seila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Seila and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Seila and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,344 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 119 sites for Seila, and this reads all 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

77 references

Each of the 156 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. 65 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 Seila

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Seila 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. Adams 1861