Ampullina

Searched as Ampullina dupinii. The Paleobiology Database treats Ampullina as the accepted name.

Ampullina is an extinct taxonomic genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. They lived from the Middle Triassic period to the Lower Pliocene age.

Ampullina

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
AmpullinidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101 Mya93.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Ampullina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

1 formation

Galala — 29.28°N, 34.72°E

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The named rock units Ampullina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ampullina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ampullina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,612 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 406 sites for Ampullina, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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. 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 content2

Picture of Ampullina

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

MorphoSource 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 itAmpullinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Férussac 1822)