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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11368	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11368

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Columbellidae : Mitrella

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Columbellidae	Swainson 1840
genus	Mitrella	Risso 1826

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mitrella	subgenus	belongs to Columbella	stated with evidence	Hörnes and Auinger, 1880
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Pyrenidae	stated without evidence	Wenz, 1938
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Pyrenidae	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1948
Mitrella	subgenus	belongs to Pyrene	stated with evidence	Glibert, 1952
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Columbellidae	stated with evidence	MacNeil, 1960
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Columbellidae	stated without evidence	Addicott, 1970
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Columbellidae	stated with evidence	Ladd, 1977
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Pyreninae	implied	Wilson, 1994
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Columbellidae	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Columbellidae	stated without evidence	Wienrich, 2001
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Columbellidae	stated with evidence	Duerr, 2008
Mitrella	genus	belongs to Columbellidae	stated without evidence	Darragh, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

7 (24%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Columbellidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Columbellidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mitrella (Atilia) subgenus	listed (PBDB)	8	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Mitrella (Mitrella) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Mitrella (Mitrella) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	8	23.0 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Mitrela agenta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	12.7 Ma Miocene	12.7 Ma Miocene
Mitrella anchuela ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mitrella broderipi species	listed (PBDB)	4	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Mitrella cantaurana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Mitrella debooyi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	11.6 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Mitrella edensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Mitrella epacta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Anachis gardnerae species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Mitrella gausapata species	listed (PBDB)	21	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Mitrella guttata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Mitrella hayesorum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Mitrella hilberi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	20.4 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Mitrella limonensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	9	11.6 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Mitrella mikra ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Mitrella nanna ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Mitrella oryzoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	33.9 Ma Oligocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Mitrella parva species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Mitrella pedana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Mitrella phyllisae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Mitrella sima ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Mitrella tuberosa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	25	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1826	Mitrella Risso p. 247
1880	Columbella (Mitrella) Hörnes and Auinger p. 96
1938	Mitrella Wenz p. 1137
1948	Mitrella Gardner p. 225
1952	Pyrene (Mitrella) Glibert p. 311
1960	Mitrella MacNeil p. 67
1964	Mitrella Woodring p. 246
1970	Mitrella Addicott p. 87
1977	Mitrella Ladd p. 47

Year	Name and Author
1987	Mitrella Ward and Blackwelder p. 132
1994	Mitrella Wilson p. 101
2001	Mitrella Todd
2001	Mitrella Wienrich p. 476
2002	Mitrela Harzhauser and Kowalke p. 73
2002	Mitrella Sepkoski, Jr.
2008	Mitrella Duerr p. 151
2017	Mitrella Darragh p. 70

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Wenz W. (1938) Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda, Handbuch der Paläozoologie

Gardner J. A. (1948) Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199 B, 179-310

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Woodring W. P. (1964) Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae)., United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 C, 241-297

Addicott W.O. (1970) Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642, 1-172

Ladd H. S. (1977) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 533, 1-84

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Wilson B. (1994) , Australian Marine Shells 2

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Wienrich G. (2001) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein), Gastropoda bis Cancellariidae 3, 385-639

Harzhauser M., Kowalke T. (2002) Sarmatian (Late Middle Miocene) Gastropod Assemblages of the Central Paratethys, Facies 46, 57-82

Duerr R. (2008) Two new species of Mitrella (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Columbellidae) from the lower Miocene Chipola Formation of northwestern Florida, The Nautilus 122 3, 151-154

Darragh T. A. (2017) Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia, Records of the Western Australian Museum 32, 29-100 doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.32(1).2017.029-100

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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