Katherinella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CallocardiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 58 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 774 ka.
148 occurrences of Katherinella on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
148 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
25 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group26
- Astoria Formation21
- Clallam Formation15
- Stone City Formation9
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group7
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The named rock units Katherinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Katherinella and its relatives
EoceneWhere Katherinella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,010 taxa- Pseudoliva vetusta29 sites
- Turritella29 sites
- Ficus28 sites
- Polinices28 sites
- Athleta petrosa27 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis27 sites
- Ancilla staminea26 sites
- Pyramidella26 sites
- Buccitriton texanum25 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii25 sites
- Sinum25 sites
- Michela trabeatoides24 sites
- Architectonica23 sites
- Calorhadia23 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni23 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)23 sites
- Hastula23 sites
- Microdrillia23 sites
- Latirus moorei22 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis22 sites
- Pitar21 sites
- Acteon20 sites
- Cochlespira20 sites
- Fusimitra20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Katherinella, and this reads all 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
23 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals36
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington31
- Miocene marine mollusks from the Astoria Formation in Oregon20
- Molluscan paleontology of the lower Miocene Clallam Formation, northwestern Washington14
- Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas6
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region5
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda5
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)4
- Oligocene molluscan biostratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Part of the type Temblor Formation, California4
- The marine Tertiary stratigraphy of the North Pacific coast of America4
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.2
Each of the 148 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. 11 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 Katherinella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Katherinella 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 itCallocardiinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tegland 1929)