Boreocingula globulus
Boreocingula globulus is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BoreocingulaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Rissoidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rissoidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Rissoidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 774 ka.
4 occurrences of Boreocingula globulus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Boreocingula globulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Boreocingula globulus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Boreocingula globulus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
244 taxa- Ampullina2 sites
- Ancilla2 sites
- Ancilla canalifera2 sites
- Architectonica (Solariaxis)2 sites
- Arius2 sites
- Asthenotoma helicoides2 sites
- Asthenotoma zonulata2 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina)2 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina) athleta2 sites
- Bela2 sites
- Bullinella2 sites
- Callista2 sites
- Callista (Callista) elegans2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Carcharias macrotus2 sites
- Clavilithes2 sites
- Cominella2 sites
- Conomitra2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Cornulina minax2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Crassispira (Tripia) granulata2 sites
- Crassispira scabriuscula2 sites
- Crassostrea tenera2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Boreocingula globulus, 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
2 references- Molluscan palaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap Kobenhavn Formation, North Greenland2
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire2
Each of the 4 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 Boreocingula globulus
- 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 Boreocingula globulus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBoreocingula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Möller 1842)