Subulitidae

Subulitidae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda.

Subulites Emmons, 1842, a relative of Subulitidae — not Subulitidae itself

Not Subulitidae. This is Subulites Emmons, 1842, a relative — both are Subulitidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
SubulitoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 223 million years on record.

The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 490 occurrencesOrdovician — about 427 of 490 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 28 of 490 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 24 of 490 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 490 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 10 of 490 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 490 occurrences492–483 Mya — about 3 occurrences483–475 Mya — about 11 occurrences475–467 Mya — about 18 occurrences467–459 Mya — about 18 occurrences459–451 Mya — about 213 occurrences451–443 Mya — about 164 occurrences443–435 Mya — about 8 occurrences435–427 Mya — about 9 occurrences427–419 Mya — about 12 occurrences419–411 Mya — about 7 occurrences411–403 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–387 Mya — about 6 occurrences387–379 Mya — about 7 occurrences379–370 Mya — about 3 occurrences362–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences354–346 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences298–290 Mya — about 4 occurrences290–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences282–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences483.4 Mya259.857 Mya492 Mya249 Mya

490 occurrences of Subulitidae on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

490 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

118 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 44.50°N, 92.90°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.55°N, 78.75°WVerulam — 45.42°N, 75.72°WDubuque — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.41°N, 75.73°WChaumont — 45.57°N, 74.93°WChaumont — 45.43°N, 75.53°WChaumont — 45.62°N, 74.69°WChaumont — 45.03°N, 74.83°WChaumont — 45.47°N, 74.81°WChaumont — 45.33°N, 75.72°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.31°N, 89.88°WSmithville — 37.41°N, 89.87°WSmithville — 37.35°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.21°N, 89.85°WEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WEllis Bay — 49.74°N, 63.84°WGlenwood — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGlenwood — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 45.88°N, 76.93°WBobcaygeon — 45.54°N, 75.29°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WLindsay — 44.58°N, 78.98°WLebanon Limestone — 35.80°N, 86.13°WLebanon Limestone — 35.45°N, 86.88°WLebanon Limestone — 36.00°N, 86.45°WLebanon Limestone — 35.47°N, 86.80°WLebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WVäo — 59.42°N, 24.75°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EGratton Limestone — 37.22°N, 81.36°WGratton Limestone — 37.00°N, 81.00°WGratton Limestone — 37.10°N, 81.62°WLowville — 45.42°N, 75.70°WLowville — 45.45°N, 75.59°WKõrgessaare — 59.02°N, 23.14°EKõrgessaare — 59.00°N, 22.77°EKõrgessaare — 59.08°N, 23.61°ERacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 56.50°N, 94.25°WPortage Chute — 58.50°N, 95.00°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Subulitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 94 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Subulitidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Subulitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 253 sites for Subulitidae, 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

87 references

Each of the 490 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. 75 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 Subulites Emmons, 1842

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Subulitidae 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 itSubulitoidea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindström 1884