Pleurotomarioidea

Pleurotomarioidea is a superfamily of small to large marine gastropods included in the order Pleurotomariida of the subclass Vetigastropoda.

Pleurotomarioidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VetigastropodaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 486 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 493.5 Mya to 774 ka.

Cambrian — about 1 of 1044 occurrencesOrdovician — about 7 of 1044 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 1044 occurrencesDevonian — about 22 of 1044 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 22 of 1044 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 80 of 1044 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 1044 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 102 of 1044 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 151 of 1044 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 185 of 1044 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 97 of 1044 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 112 of 1044 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 128 of 1044 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 58 of 1044 occurrencesPaleocene — about 19 of 1044 occurrencesEocene — about 34 of 1044 occurrencesOligocene — about 12 of 1044 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 1044 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 1044 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 1044 occurrences503–487 Mya — about 1 occurrence487–470 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences470–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–436 Mya — about 5 occurrences419–403 Mya — about 7 occurrences403–386 Mya — about 5 occurrences386–369 Mya — about 9 occurrences369–352 Mya — about 4 occurrences352–336 Mya — about 8 occurrences336–319 Mya — about 9 occurrences319–302 Mya — about 4 occurrences302–285 Mya — about 13 occurrences285–268 Mya — about 20 occurrences268–252 Mya — about 48 occurrences252–235 Mya — about 132 occurrences235–218 Mya — about 75 occurrences218–201 Mya — about 53 occurrences201–185 Mya — about 162 occurrences185–168 Mya — about 75 occurrences168–151 Mya — about 132 occurrences151–134 Mya — about 45 occurrences134–117 Mya — about 54 occurrences117–101 Mya — about 53 occurrences101–84 Mya — about 34 occurrences84–67 Mya — about 22 occurrences67–50 Mya — about 31 occurrences50–34 Mya — about 25 occurrences34–17 Mya — about 14 occurrences17–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences488.9 Mya2.58 Mya503 Mya0 Mya

1,044 occurrences of Pleurotomarioidea on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1,044 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

238 formations

Sciliar — 46.45°N, 11.86°ESciliar — 46.34°N, 11.67°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.58°N, 12.23°ECassian — 46.53°N, 12.16°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.10°ECassian — 46.62°N, 11.87°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EChari — 23.67°N, 69.00°EChari — 23.48°N, 69.37°EChari — 23.38°N, 69.13°EHierlatz Limestone — 47.25°N, 17.77°EHierlatz Limestone — 47.20°N, 17.87°ETrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.60°N, 2.45°WIsztimér Limestone — 47.18°N, 17.88°EIsztimér Limestone — 46.98°N, 17.30°ELuxembourg Sandstone — 49.74°N, 6.05°ELuxembourg Sandstone — 49.49°N, 6.33°ELuxembourg Sandstone — 49.56°N, 6.17°ELuxembourg Sandstone — 49.63°N, 6.01°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°EMarmolata — 46.36°N, 11.59°EKieselkalk — 47.42°N, 9.90°EBayirkoy — 40.30°N, 29.99°EPerte du Rhône — 46.83°N, 6.52°ECastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WOpoka — 51.33°N, 21.97°EOpoka — 51.00°N, 21.00°EOpoka — 51.13°N, 21.77°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.97°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.77°EWargal — 32.63°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.78°N, 71.58°EOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WOsmington Oolite — 50.60°N, 2.45°WQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.62°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.53°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.09°N, 6.76°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.78°ECapitan — 31.87°N, 104.90°WIsztimér — 47.20°N, 17.89°EIsztimér — 47.28°N, 17.84°EChhidru — 32.47°N, 71.97°EChhidru — 32.47°N, 71.95°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 71.85°EChhidru — 32.60°N, 71.82°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.10°EManiyara Fort — 23.46°N, 68.60°EManiyara Fort — 23.45°N, 68.67°EManiyara Fort — 23.45°N, 68.67°EVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°E

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The named rock units Pleurotomarioidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 214 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 415 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleurotomarioidea and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pleurotomarioidea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,979 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 697 sites for Pleurotomarioidea, and this reads 240 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

296 references

Each of the 1,044 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. 284 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 Pleurotomarioidea

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Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itVetigastropoda through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

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