Columbellidae

The Columbellidae, the dove snails or dove shells, are a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda.

Columbellidae

Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga · CC BY-SA 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
Also called
dove shellPBDB
Sits inside
BuccinoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2243 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2243 occurrencesPaleocene — about 16 of 2243 occurrencesEocene — about 90 of 2243 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 2243 occurrencesMiocene — about 798 of 2243 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 493 of 2243 occurrencesPleistocene — about 763 of 2243 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 9 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 9 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 9 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 16 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 49 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 6 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 11 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 85 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 171 occurrences14–9.0 Mya — about 296 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 330 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 1235 occurrences125.77 Mya11.7 ka135 Mya0 Mya

2,243 occurrences of Columbellidae 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

2,243 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

236 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.97°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.52°N, 71.28°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.63°N, 82.82°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.04°WRio Banano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.55°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WCaujarao — 11.00°N, 69.83°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.78°N, 118.35°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.98°N, 79.57°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°W

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The named rock units Columbellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 212 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 523 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Columbellidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Columbellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,495 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 680 sites for Columbellidae, and this reads 240 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

288 references

Each of the 2,243 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. 276 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 Columbellidae

Credit
Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Columbellidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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 itBuccinoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1840