Astyris

Astyris is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Astyris

Philippe MAESTRATI · 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
ColumbellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 5 of 70 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 70 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 70 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 70 occurrencesPleistocene — about 36 of 70 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–2.1 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Astyris 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

70 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

28 formations

Yorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WPamlico — 38.69°N, 75.77°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WSt Mary's — 38.36°N, 76.39°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.73°N, 76.34°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WYegua — 30.63°N, 96.51°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WTalbot — 38.15°N, 76.43°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WRed Crag — 52.05°N, 1.33°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ENew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WEastover — 37.10°N, 76.39°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WSt Marys — 38.36°N, 76.39°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WGardiners Clay — 40.98°N, 72.32°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WHatchetigbee — 31.94°N, 88.06°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°W

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The named rock units Astyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astyris and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Astyris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,543 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Astyris, 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

26 references

Each of the 70 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. 14 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 Astyris

Credit
Philippe MAESTRATI
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Astyris was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1853)