Mathildidae

Mathildidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Mathildoidea of the informal group of the Lower Heterobranchia.

Mathildidae

MNHN, Paris - Peter MASSICARD · CC BY 4.0 · 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
MathildoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 686 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 686 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 51 of 686 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 17 of 686 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 123 of 686 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 686 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 101 of 686 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 101 of 686 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 71 of 686 occurrencesEocene — about 168 of 686 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 686 occurrencesMiocene — about 27 of 686 occurrencesPliocene — about 10 of 686 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 686 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–235 Mya — about 11 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 7 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 5 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 28 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 9 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 9 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 18 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 105 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 46 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 31 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 7 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 10 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 7 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–76 Mya — about 23 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 63 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 77 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 33 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 46 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 96 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 15 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

686 occurrences of Mathildidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

686 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

115 formations

Ripley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 30.02°N, 97.07°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 31.35°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WCassian — 46.54°N, 12.10°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.55°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.59°N, 12.26°EGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.00°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBrightseat — 38.97°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°EAmaltheenton — 49.55°N, 11.13°EPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WMcBean — 33.50°N, 80.89°WDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°EMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.66°N, 92.90°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 46.33°N, 116.73°W

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The named rock units Mathildidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 91 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 256 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mathildidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Mathildidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,460 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 397 sites for Mathildidae, 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

127 references

Each of the 686 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. 115 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 Mathildidae

Credit
MNHN, Paris - Peter MASSICARD
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itMathildoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1889