Metuonella

No picture of Metuonella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Metuonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RaphitomidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 27 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

27 occurrences of Metuonella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

27 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

2 formations

Breda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°E

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The named rock units Metuonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metuonella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Metuonella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

647 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Metuonella, 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

3 references

Each of the 27 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Metuonella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Metuonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metuonella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itRaphitomidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sorgenfrei 1958