Columbellopsis

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

Columbellopsis

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
ColumbellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 34 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 34 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 14 of 34 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 34 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Columbellopsis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

34 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

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WVaqueros — 34.59°N, 120.23°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.05°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WHatchetigbee — 31.94°N, 88.06°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°W

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The named rock units Columbellopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Columbellopsis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Columbellopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Columbellopsis, 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

17 references

Each of the 34 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. 5 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 Columbellopsis

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Columbellopsis 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 itColumbellidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bucquoy et al. 1882)