Ophiodermella

Ophiodermella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.

Ophiodermella

Jan Delsing · 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
BorsoniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 4 of 106 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 106 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 31 of 106 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 52 of 106 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 19 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 19 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

106 occurrences of Ophiodermella 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

106 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

22 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.54°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.83°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.89°WClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.26°WOlcese — 35.51°N, 118.86°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WTentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°EEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.33°WEtchegoin — 36.15°N, 120.64°WEtchegoin — 36.18°N, 120.64°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WTomioka — 42.77°N, 143.02°ESan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WMerced — 37.38°N, 122.19°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WTemblor — 35.45°N, 118.89°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WTowsley — 34.41°N, 118.48°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WSanta Clara — 37.37°N, 122.14°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WRound Mountain — 35.43°N, 118.80°W

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The named rock units Ophiodermella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophiodermella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ophiodermella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,483 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Ophiodermella, 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

40 references

Each of the 106 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. 28 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 Ophiodermella

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ophiodermella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bartsch 1944