Julia
Julia is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Oxynooidea.

Alexandre Laporte · CC BY-SA 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
- JuliinaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
17 occurrences of Julia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Gurabo Formation7
- Cercado Formation4
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group3
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group2
- Falun de Saucats Formation1
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The named rock units Julia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Julia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Julia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
824 taxa- Pachycrommium4 sites
- Tectonatica4 sites
- Acteocina3 sites
- Anadara3 sites
- Anomia3 sites
- Architectonica3 sites
- Argopecten eccentricus3 sites
- Brachycythara3 sites
- Cancellaria3 sites
- Cerithiidae3 sites
- Chlorostoma (Omphalius)3 sites
- Cryoturris3 sites
- Ctena3 sites
- Cythara3 sites
- Dentalium (Laevidentalium)3 sites
- Diplodonta (Phlyctiderma)3 sites
- Drillia3 sites
- Episiphon3 sites
- Glyphostoma3 sites
- Ithycythara3 sites
- Lindapecten plurinominis3 sites
- Lucinidae3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Natica (Natica)3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Julia, 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
5 references- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel11
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida2
- Révision des Gastropoda (Mollusca) du stratotype de L'Aquitanien (Miocéne inf.) site de Saucats "Lariey", Gironde, France1
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 1: Pelecypods and Scaphopods1
Each of the 17 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 Julia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Alexandre Laporte
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Julia 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 itJuliinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gould 1862