Dentimargo

Dentimargo is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

Dentimargo

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 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
Sits inside
MarginellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Marginellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Marginellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Marginellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 42 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 25 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 42 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 20 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Dentimargo 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

42 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

15 formations

Cayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WKutai Basin — 0.17°N, 117.44°E

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The named rock units Dentimargo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dentimargo and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Dentimargo and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Dentimargo, 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

15 references

Each of the 42 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. 3 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 Dentimargo

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dentimargo 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 itMarginellidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1899