Nitidella

Nitidella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Nitidella

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · 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
ColumbellidaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
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 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 4 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.333 Mya129 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Nitidella on record. 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

8 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

6 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.27°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.17°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Nitidella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nitidella, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Nitidella

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nitidella 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

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 itColumbellidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)