Compsodrillia

Compsodrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.

Compsodrillia

P. Bartsch · 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
PseudomelatomidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 46 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 23 of 46 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 46 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15.98 Mya1.8 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

46 occurrences of Compsodrillia on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

46 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

13 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WShark Hole Point — 9.06°N, 81.79°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.56°WVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°EShimajiri — 26.12°N, 127.72°EWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WSubibaja — 2.28°S, 80.43°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.04°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WMontezuma — 9.65°N, 85.07°W

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The named rock units Compsodrillia 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.

Compsodrillia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Compsodrillia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Compsodrillia, 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

12 references

Each of the 46 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. 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 Compsodrillia

Credit
P. Bartsch
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Compsodrillia 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

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 itPseudomelatomidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodring 1928