Zebinella

Zebinella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks, in the family Rissoinidae.

Zebinella

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
RissoinidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Rissooidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rissooidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Rissooidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 35 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 35 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 35 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–2.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences61.66 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

35 occurrences of Zebinella 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

35 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

14 formations

Korytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°ESabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°EValldunga — 44.91°N, 8.12°EKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°W

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The named rock units Zebinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zebinella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Zebinella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Zebinella, 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

16 references

Each of the 35 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. 4 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 Zebinella

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

No 3D scan of Zebinella 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 itRissoinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mörch 1876)