Mitrella gausapata

Mitrella gausapata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
shaggy dovesnailPBDB
Sits inside
MitrellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 126 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 126 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 93 of 126 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 126 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 14 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 47 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

126 occurrences of Mitrella gausapata 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

126 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

21 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.78°N, 118.35°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.64°N, 117.89°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.90°N, 120.52°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WMerced — 37.38°N, 122.19°WMerced — 38.37°N, 122.92°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 35.94°N, 120.68°WPancho Rico — 35.96°N, 120.73°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WSan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WSanta Clara — 37.37°N, 122.14°WPurisima — 36.97°N, 121.95°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Mitrella gausapata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mitrella gausapata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mitrella gausapata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,236 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Mitrella gausapata, 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

39 references

Each of the 126 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. 27 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

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Picture of Mitrella gausapata

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No 3D scan of Mitrella gausapata 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1850)