Ebala

Ebala is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ebalinae, family Murchisonellidae.

Ebala

George Washington Tryon (1838–1888) · 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
MurchisonellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Murchisonellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisonellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Murchisonellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 24 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 24 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 24 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 24 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–226 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences233.6 Mya129 ka242 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Ebala 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

24 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

6 formations

Lellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ECassian — 46.58°N, 12.23°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.93°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WBorgloon — 51.00°N, 4.50°EBorgloon — 50.80°N, 5.34°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°E

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The named rock units Ebala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ebala and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ebala and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Ebala, 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

13 references

Each of the 24 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. 1 further reference is 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 Ebala

Credit
George Washington Tryon (1838–1888)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ebala was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1847