Mioawateria
Mioawateria is a genus of sea snails in the family Raphitomidae. It was originally erected as a subgenus of Awateria. It was originally erected as a subgenus of Awateria.

MNHN, Paris - Marie Hennion 2014 - Project:RECOLNAT · 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
- RaphitomidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 340 ka.
12 occurrences of Mioawateria 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
12 occurrences- Miocene92%
- Pleistocene8%
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
- Stillwater Mudstone Formation · Blue Bottom Group2
- Waipaoa Formation1
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The named rock units Mioawateria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mioawateria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mioawateria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
288 taxa- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)9 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata9 sites
- Cibicides dutemplei9 sites
- Elphidium9 sites
- Fusiturris9 sites
- Gemmula (Gemmula)9 sites
- Globulina gibba9 sites
- Lentigodentalium9 sites
- Limopsis9 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita9 sites
- Lyrotyphis9 sites
- Nassarius9 sites
- Naticidae9 sites
- Nodosaria9 sites
- Parvicardium9 sites
- Pleurotomoides9 sites
- Saccella westendorpi9 sites
- Spiroplectammina carinata9 sites
- Streptodictyon9 sites
- Strioterebrum9 sites
- Turritella9 sites
- Varicorbula gibba9 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella9 sites
- Asthenotoma8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mioawateria, 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
3 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae9
- Late Miocene Deep-Water Mollusca from the Stillwater Mudstone at Greymouth, Westland, New Zealand: Paleoecology and Systematics2
- Paleontological notes on the Castlecliffian Te Piki Bed, with descriptions of new Molluscan taxa1
Each of the 12 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. 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 Mioawateria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- MNHN, Paris - Marie Hennion 2014 - Project:RECOLNAT
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mioawateria 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Mioawateria”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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. Vella 1954