Papillina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FasciolariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
60 occurrences of Papillina on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
60 occurrencesThese 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
9 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group22
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group8
- Porters Creek Formation · Midway Group6
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group6
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group6
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group3
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The named rock units Papillina 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.
Papillina and its relatives
EoceneWhere Papillina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
879 taxa- Turritella25 sites
- Athleta petrosa22 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta21 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta19 sites
- Ficus19 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)19 sites
- Venericardia19 sites
- Lapparia18 sites
- Microdrillia18 sites
- Sinum18 sites
- Ancilla staminea17 sites
- Latirus moorei16 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis16 sites
- Trypanotoma16 sites
- Architectonica15 sites
- Cadulus15 sites
- Clavilithes15 sites
- Hipponix15 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata15 sites
- Polinices15 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii15 sites
- Surculoma15 sites
- Bonellitia14 sites
- Cochlespira14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Papillina, 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
9 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda24
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals20
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)5
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region4
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda3
- Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
- Summary of the geology of Florida and a guidebook to the classic exposures1
- Eocene Mollusks from Citrus and Levy Counties, Florida1
Each of the 60 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. 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 Papillina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Papillina 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFasciolariidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.