Kelletia

Kelletia

Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
AustrosiphonidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 95 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 95 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 21 of 95 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 95 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 95 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 23 of 95 occurrencesPleistocene — about 27 of 95 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 16 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

95 occurrences of Kelletia 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

95 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

30 formations

San Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WSan Emigdio — 35.03°N, 119.24°WSan Emigdio — 35.41°N, 119.69°WSan Emigdio — 34.92°N, 119.18°WSan Emigdio — 35.00°N, 119.00°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPico — 34.40°N, 118.44°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WBaghmara — 25.18°N, 90.67°EBaghmara — 25.27°N, 90.23°EKama — 19.52°N, 95.40°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°EFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WMonterey — 35.45°N, 120.35°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°WHückelhoven — 51.08°N, 6.32°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WRyukyu Limestone — 24.38°N, 124.22°EQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°EChengapara — 25.17°N, 90.67°ETemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WSitsayan — 20.17°N, 94.92°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°EGaj — 23.28°N, 68.97°EMariana Limestone — 13.45°N, 144.78°E

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The named rock units Kelletia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kelletia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Kelletia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,888 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Kelletia, 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

47 references

Each of the 95 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. 35 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 Kelletia

Credit
Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kelletia 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.

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. (Fischer 1884)