Admete

Admete is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Admetinae of the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Admete

Manuel CABALLER · 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
Also called
admetePBDB
Sits inside
CancellariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 47 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 27 of 47 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–2.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Admete 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

47 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

24 formations

Lomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.29°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EKeasey — 45.72°N, 123.20°WTalara — 5.13°S, 81.17°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ETowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WMakah — 48.32°N, 124.45°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WKatsuhira — 42.99°N, 143.63°ECareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Admete has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Admete and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Admete and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,906 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Admete, 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

30 references

Each of the 47 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. 18 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 Admete

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Admete 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 itCancellariidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Müller 1842)