Costellariidae

Costellariidae sometimes called the "ribbed miters" is a taxonomic family of minute to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This family of snails is also sometimes referred to as Vexillum miters. The main family of miter shells however is Mitridae, a closely related group.

Costellariidae

Richard Parker · CC BY 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
Also called
ribbed mitrePBDB
Sits inside
TurbinelloideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 887 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 887 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 115 of 887 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 260 of 887 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 113 of 887 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 227 of 887 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 92 of 887 occurrencesPleistocene — about 73 of 887 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 11 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 33 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 59 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 18 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 12 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 12 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 23 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 24 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 158 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 25 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 45 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 47 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 18 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 13 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 48 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 53 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 67 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 33 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 70 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 114 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

887 occurrences of Costellariidae 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

887 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

163 formations

Cook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 31.40°N, 93.71°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.33°WCook Mountain — 30.86°N, 96.36°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.27°N, 95.61°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.51°WCook Mountain — 31.49°N, 93.47°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.22°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WByram — 32.40°N, 90.87°WByram — 32.33°N, 90.20°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.61°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 32.20°N, 87.76°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.57°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WPorters Creek — 31.94°N, 87.05°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°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°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.63°N, 91.82°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°EKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 29.77°N, 97.68°WKincaid — 31.36°N, 96.04°WKincaid — 31.37°N, 96.69°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WKeasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 45.72°N, 123.20°WKeasey — 45.98°N, 123.28°WLogansport — 31.57°N, 93.55°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.57°N, 158.27°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.87°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°EReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°EHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.97°N, 87.86°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°W

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The named rock units Costellariidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 139 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 141 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Costellariidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Costellariidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,696 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 379 sites for Costellariidae, 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

156 references

Each of the 887 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. 144 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 Costellariidae

Credit
Richard Parker
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Costellariidae 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 itTurbinelloidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. MacDonald 1860