Taniella

Taniella is a genus of extinct sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae. Species in the genus begin to appear in fossil record in the Early Paleocene, and are primarily found in New Zealand, with some fossils known to occur in Australia.

Taniella

Auckland War Memorial Museum · 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
NaticidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya74 Mya4 Mya

27 occurrences of Taniella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

27 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

15 formations

Rifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.97°S, 170.58°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°EStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°EKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.84°S, 170.52°EMutsuo — 34.35°N, 135.34°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EBroken River — 44.52°S, 170.93°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EWaihao — 44.20°S, 171.05°EMount Brown — 44.03°S, 170.72°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EJan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°ENihotupu — 36.85°S, 174.43°E

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The named rock units Taniella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taniella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Taniella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

289 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Taniella, 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

10 references

Each of the 27 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 Taniella

Credit
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Taniella 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.

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What may have been alongside itNaticidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay and Marwick 1937