Minolia

Minolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.

Minolia

G.B. Sowerby III · 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
SolariellidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trochoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trochoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 30 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 30 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 30 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences13.82 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

30 occurrences of Minolia 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

30 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

8 formations

Timms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WIshiizawa — 42.83°N, 143.81°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°ESan Margarita — 37.06°N, 122.06°WTentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°ETowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°W

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The named rock units Minolia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Minolia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Minolia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

437 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Minolia, 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

14 references

Each of the 30 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. 2 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 Minolia

Credit
G.B. Sowerby III
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Minolia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSolariellidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams 1860