Marginellidae

Marginellidae, or the margin shells, are a taxonomic family of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.

Marginellidae

Adzivo · 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
margin shellPBDB
Sits inside
MuricoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 256 million years on record.

The record covers at least 256.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 1128 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1128 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 1128 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 1128 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1128 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1128 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1128 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 1128 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 1128 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 1128 occurrencesEocene — about 145 of 1128 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 36 of 1128 occurrencesMiocene — about 464 of 1128 occurrencesPliocene — about 246 of 1128 occurrencesPleistocene — about 218 of 1128 occurrences265–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–44 Mya — about 15 occurrences44–35 Mya — about 120 occurrences35–27 Mya — about 28 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 125 occurrences18–8.8 Mya — about 207 occurrences8.8–0 Mya — about 628 occurrences256.8 Mya11.7 ka265 Mya0 Mya

1,128 occurrences of Marginellidae 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

1,128 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

157 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.35°N, 70.70°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 26.70°N, 80.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.72°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 30.36°N, 83.99°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.63°N, 82.82°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°EYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WDrazinda — 29.95°N, 70.12°EDrazinda — 30.42°N, 70.51°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WFort Thompson — 26.80°N, 81.37°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°W

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The named rock units Marginellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 133 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 170 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Marginellidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Marginellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,606 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 353 sites for Marginellidae, and this reads 240 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

181 references

Each of the 1,128 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. 169 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 Marginellidae

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Adzivo
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Marginellidae 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

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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. Fleming 1828