Finella

Finella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScaliolidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Scaliolidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Scaliolidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Scaliolidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 37 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 15 of 37 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 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Finella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

37 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

9 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WChuy — 33.95°S, 58.33°WChuy — 33.88°S, 53.52°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WDampier Limestone — 25.53°S, 113.48°EPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EKutai Basin — 0.17°N, 117.44°E

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The named rock units Finella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Finella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Finella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

900 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Finella, 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

14 references

Each of the 37 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. 2 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 Finella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Finella 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itScaliolidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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