Serrata
Serrata is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Austroginellinae of the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

MNHN - Philippe MAESTRATI - 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
- MarginellidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Marginellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Marginellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Marginellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
71 occurrences of Serrata on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
71 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group33
- Shoal River Formation · Alum Bluff Group10
- Oak Grove Formation · Alum Bluff Group9
- Dry Creek Sands Formation4
- Arcadia Formation · Hawthorn Group3
- Drazinda Formation3
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The named rock units Serrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Serrata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Serrata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,381 taxa- Anadara19 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita)18 sites
- Acteocina17 sites
- Cancellaria17 sites
- Tectonatica17 sites
- Uromitra17 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula)16 sites
- Parvilucina16 sites
- Mitrella14 sites
- Nuculana14 sites
- Sulcularia14 sites
- Calyptraea centralis13 sites
- Strioterebrum13 sites
- Anomia12 sites
- Cylichna12 sites
- Nucula12 sites
- Olivella12 sites
- Ringicula12 sites
- Yoldia12 sites
- Chlamys11 sites
- Crucibulum (Crucibulum) chipolanum11 sites
- Drillia11 sites
- Kurtziella11 sites
- Pseudochama11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Serrata, 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
11 references- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida49
- The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. Part V - Gastropoda (Eratoidae to Scaphandridae)4
- Mollusca: Shoal River Formation (Middle Miocene3
- A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District3
- Molluscs of the Tampa and Suwannee Limestones3
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- Late Miocene Deep-Water Mollusca from the Stillwater Mudstone at Greymouth, Westland, New Zealand: Paleoecology and Systematics2
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results2
- A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods1
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda1
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
Each of the 71 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 content3
Picture of Serrata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- MNHN - Philippe MAESTRATI - 2020
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- MCZ Ichthyology
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Hainania serrata · MCZ:Ich:32646
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMarginellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jousseaume 1875)