Axelella scalatella

Axelella scalatella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Axelella scalatella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AxelellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.246 Mya3.6 Mya12.1 Mya2.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Axelella scalatella on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

2 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°W

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The named rock units Axelella scalatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Axelella scalatella and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Axelella scalatella and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

617 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Axelella scalatella, 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

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 content1

Picture of Axelella scalatella

Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Axelella scalatella 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 itAxelella through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Guppy 1873)