Columbella

Columbella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Columbella

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
ColumbellinaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 5 of 138 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 138 occurrencesMiocene — about 24 of 138 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 138 occurrencesPleistocene — about 85 of 138 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 21 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 78 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

138 occurrences of Columbella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

138 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

31 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WRed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 52.10°N, 1.45°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°EDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.27°WDiscovery Point — 29.10°N, 118.25°WDiscovery Point — 28.98°N, 118.23°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WDevonshire — 32.30°N, 64.75°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WLindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°ECercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WNanggulan — 7.48°S, 110.05°EMancora Tablazo — 4.58°S, 81.27°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WSpencer's Point — 32.31°N, 64.73°WMao — 19.67°N, 71.40°WNdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°E

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The named rock units Columbella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 70 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Columbella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Columbella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,385 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Columbella, 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

57 references

Each of the 138 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. 45 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 Columbella

Credit
Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 1799