Clavatula

Clavatula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.

Clavatula

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
ClavatulidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 5 of 188 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 188 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 117 of 188 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 49 of 188 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 188 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 13 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 18 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 18 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 16 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 13 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 16 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.6–4.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 29 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences37.71 Mya129 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

188 occurrences of Clavatula 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

188 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

32 formations

Chipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°EShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WMaraldi Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°EUçarsu — 40.66°N, 39.90°EKasaba — 40.66°N, 39.90°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WLower Menkrawit — 1.03°N, 118.98°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°EBier Pudingstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°EDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WSitsayan — 20.17°N, 94.92°ESingu — 20.93°N, 94.85°EMekran — 25.45°N, 62.55°EMarna di Possagno — 46.16°N, 13.37°EUpper Bhuban — 23.00°N, 93.00°E

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The named rock units Clavatula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 70 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clavatula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Clavatula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Clavatula, 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

41 references

Each of the 188 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. 29 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 Clavatula

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1801)