Vitrinellidae

Vitrinellidae is a family of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Truncatelloidea.

Vitrinellidae

Luiz Ricardo L. Simone · CC BY 3.0 · 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
TruncatelloideaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 545 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 545 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 545 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 545 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 28 of 545 occurrencesEocene — about 127 of 545 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 26 of 545 occurrencesMiocene — about 174 of 545 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 72 of 545 occurrencesPleistocene — about 99 of 545 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 13 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 15 occurrences58–52 Mya — about 14 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 18 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 29 occurrences41–35 Mya — about 68 occurrences35–29 Mya — about 15 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 11 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 25 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 97 occurrences12–5.8 Mya — about 50 occurrences5.8–0 Mya — about 184 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka174 Mya0 Mya

545 occurrences of Vitrinellidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

545 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

130 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WNyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°EAgueguexquite — 17.58°N, 95.08°WAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°W

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The named rock units Vitrinellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 106 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 93 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vitrinellidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vitrinellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,931 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 258 sites for Vitrinellidae, and this reads 240 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

130 references

Each of the 545 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. 118 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 Vitrinellidae

Credit
Luiz Ricardo L. Simone
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vitrinellidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bush 1897