Terebridae

The Terebridae, commonly referred to as auger shells or auger snails, is a family of predatory marine gastropods in the superfamily Conoidea. They have extremely high-spired shells with numerous whorls; their common name refers to the resemblance of their shells to rock-drill bit. More than 400 species are recently known worldwide.

Terebridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
auger snailPBDB
Sits inside
ConoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1728 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 1728 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 193 of 1728 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 100 of 1728 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 884 of 1728 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 272 of 1728 occurrencesPleistocene — about 264 of 1728 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 9 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 12 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 12 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 32 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 82 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 21 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 9 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 24 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 24 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 23 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 15 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 30 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 71 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 78 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 83 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 115 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 137 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 170 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 153 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 119 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 228 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 261 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

1,728 occurrences of Terebridae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1,728 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

240 formations

Gatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WCook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.00°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 31.40°N, 93.71°WCook Mountain — 31.49°N, 93.47°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.51°WCook Mountain — 30.36°N, 96.82°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WByram — 32.40°N, 90.87°WByram — 32.33°N, 90.20°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WKama — 19.02°N, 95.15°EKama — 19.50°N, 95.38°EKama — 19.62°N, 95.30°EKama — 19.52°N, 95.47°EGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.75°N, 74.98°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCantaure — 11.95°N, 70.03°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.33°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.89°N, 71.35°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WAngostura — 1.09°N, 78.99°WAngostura — 0.80°N, 78.93°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 28.75°N, 98.30°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.60°N, 92.80°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 34.77°N, 76.65°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.87°W

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The named rock units Terebridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 216 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 270 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terebridae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Terebridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 640 sites for Terebridae, 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

272 references

Each of the 1,728 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. 260 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 Terebridae

Credit
davidd
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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