Ovatella
Ovatella is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Ellobiidae.
Manuel CABALLER · 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
- EllobiidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Ellobiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ellobiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ellobiidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 61 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Ovatella on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
4 occurrences- Paleocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ovatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ovatella and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Ovatella and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
332 taxa- Bittium2 sites
- Emarginula2 sites
- Gibberula2 sites
- Jujubinus2 sites
- Limopsis2 sites
- Melanella2 sites
- Monodonta2 sites
- Musculus2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Patella2 sites
- Rissoa2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Acar1 site
- Aclis1 site
- Acmaea1 site
- Acmaea simplex1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Adansonella1 site
- Aequipecten opercularis1 site
- Alvania (Acinopsis)1 site
- Alvania (Arsenia)1 site
- Alvania (Galeodina)1 site
- Alvania (Turbona)1 site
- Amaurellina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ovatella, 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- Revision des Gastropoda du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique. I, Les Gastropoda du Calcaire de Mons2
- Late Quaternary warm marine mollusks from Santa Maria (Azores) paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic considerations1
- Presenza di «Ospiti boreali» (Mollusca, Gastropoda) nel Pleistocene di Contrada Case Alte (Villa S. Giovanni)1
Each of the 4 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 Ovatella
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ovatella 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, “Ovatella”
- 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 itEllobiidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bivona-Bernardi 1832