Alaba

Alaba is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Litiopidae.

Alaba

Natural History Museum Rotterdam · 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
LitiopidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Litiopidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Litiopidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Litiopidae
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 67 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 67 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 67 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 67 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 67 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 67 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 67 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

67 occurrences of Alaba on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

67 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

21 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 31.97°N, 89.43°WAscot — 32.08°S, 115.92°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WDampier Limestone — 25.53°S, 113.48°EMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°E

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The named rock units Alaba 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.

Alaba and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Alaba and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

2,045 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Alaba, and this reads all 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

21 references

Each of the 67 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. 9 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 Alaba

Credit
Natural History Museum Rotterdam
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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

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 itLitiopidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams and A 1853