Closia

Closia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pruninae of the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

Closia

Manuel CABALLER · 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
VolutidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 132 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 132 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 113 of 132 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 132 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 132 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 132 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 132 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 6 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 9 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 59 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 28 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences61.66 Mya3.6 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

132 occurrences of Closia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

132 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

22 formations

Cook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 31.49°N, 93.47°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.26°N, 93.82°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCrockett — 31.40°N, 93.70°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°EJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WCockfield — 31.88°N, 88.69°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°ETamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WPoerters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.42°WWautubbee — 32.34°N, 89.14°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°W

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The named rock units Closia 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.

Closia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Closia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,284 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Closia, 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

21 references

Each of the 132 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. 9 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 Closia

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Closia 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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What may have been alongside itVolutidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.