Colubraria

Colubraria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colubrariidae. Members of this genus lack a radula and feed by sucking blood from fish.

Colubraria

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ColubrariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 51 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 51 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesMiocene — about 32 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 51 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences61.66 Mya774 ka67 Mya0 Mya

51 occurrences of Colubraria 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

51 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

16 formations

Pirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ETentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EKincaid — 31.36°N, 96.04°WKincaid — 31.37°N, 96.69°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WNakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°EWills Point — 29.96°N, 97.45°WFalun de Leognan — 44.66°N, 0.56°WSámsonháza — 47.87°N, 18.77°E

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The named rock units Colubraria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colubraria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Colubraria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,554 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Colubraria, 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

20 references

Each of the 51 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. 8 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 Colubraria

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Colubraria 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. Schumacher 1817