Kelletia kelletii

Kelletia kelletii, common name Kellet's whelk, is a species of large sea snail, a whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the whelk family Austrosiphonidae.

Kelletia kelletii

Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS · 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
Also called
Kellet's whelkPBDB
Sits inside
KelletiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 37 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 24 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences20.45 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Kelletia kelletii 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

Palos 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 — 34.42°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°WKama — 19.52°N, 95.40°EPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°W

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The named rock units Kelletia kelletii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kelletia kelletii and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Kelletia kelletii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,007 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Kelletia kelletii, 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

22 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. 10 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 kelletii

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

No 3D scan of Kelletia kelletii 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 itKelletia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1852)