Mitra

Mitra

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
MitrinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Mitridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mitridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Mitridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 366 occurrencesPaleocene — about 13 of 366 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 72 of 366 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 28 of 366 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 164 of 366 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 34 of 366 occurrencesPleistocene — about 53 of 366 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 9 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 9 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 10 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 14 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 13 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 33 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 33 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 32 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 24 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 25 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 52 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

366 occurrences of Mitra 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

366 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

113 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EWaimanalo — 21.70°N, 157.98°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WRed Bluff — 31.84°N, 88.75°WLower Menkrawit — 1.03°N, 118.98°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°EGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.83°S, 41.72°WPirabas — 3.09°S, 41.78°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°ECowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WNyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EByram Marl — 32.32°N, 90.88°WShimajiri — 26.20°N, 127.70°EShimajiri — 26.28°N, 127.78°EBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WLlajas — 34.30°N, 118.69°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 29.25°N, 82.17°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WYazoo Clay — 32.16°N, 92.10°WYazoo Clay — 31.78°N, 92.49°WYazoo Clay — 32.41°N, 90.24°WDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°E

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The named rock units Mitra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 96 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mitra and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mitra and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,997 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 171 sites for Mitra, 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

135 references

Each of the 366 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. 123 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 content3

Picture of Mitra

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Mitra florida · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:128292-Mollusca

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1798)