Kurtziella

Kurtziella is a genus of small, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae. Prior to a 2011 genetic revision, the genus used to be included in the family Conidae.

Kurtziella

Jan Delsing · 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
Sits inside
MangeliidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
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 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 42 of 100 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 100 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 34 of 100 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

100 occurrences of Kurtziella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

100 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

Gatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WPamlico — 38.69°N, 75.77°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.72°N, 118.28°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.56°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°W

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The named rock units Kurtziella 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. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kurtziella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Kurtziella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,907 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Kurtziella, 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

26 references

Each of the 100 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. 14 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 Kurtziella

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kurtziella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1918)