Batillaria

Batillaria is a genus of small salt marsh or mudflat snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae, the horn snails.

Batillaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BatillariidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Batillariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Batillariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Batillariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 11 of 92 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 21 of 92 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 92 occurrencesMiocene — about 33 of 92 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 92 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 92 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 7 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

92 occurrences of Batillaria on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

92 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

44 formations

Olcese — 35.54°N, 118.92°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WCzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ESelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°EInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WNyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°EAinoura — 33.16°N, 129.72°EHaneji — 26.62°N, 128.00°EHerschell Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.52°EKunugidaira — 36.83°N, 145.75°EKunugidaira — 37.00°N, 140.75°EFukui — 33.16°N, 129.72°EYoshino — 35.10°N, 134.19°EFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WAkasawa Silt — 34.67°N, 137.25°EUpper Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°EBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WSakuragicho — 35.45°N, 139.64°EHangu — 33.53°N, 71.06°EKisagata shell bed — 39.21°N, 139.91°ESpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°W

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The named rock units Batillaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Batillaria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Batillaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,724 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Batillaria, 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

49 references

Each of the 92 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. 37 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 content2

Picture of Batillaria

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Benson 1842