Brocchinia
Brocchinia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Marie Hennion · 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
- NeogastropodaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
6 occurrences of Brocchinia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Brocchinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brocchinia and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Brocchinia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
208 taxa- Babylonella6 sites
- Retusa6 sites
- Turbonilla6 sites
- Xenophora6 sites
- Acrocoelum5 sites
- Actaeon pusillus5 sites
- Admetula5 sites
- Alvania hauniensis5 sites
- Ancilla (Sparella)5 sites
- Aporrhais gracilis5 sites
- Architectonica5 sites
- Arcopsis5 sites
- Astarte5 sites
- Barbatia5 sites
- Bayania5 sites
- Cerithiella5 sites
- Cerithiopsis5 sites
- Circe5 sites
- Corbula5 sites
- Cordieria5 sites
- Crassatella vadosa5 sites
- Crenella5 sites
- Crenilabium5 sites
- Cucullaea5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Brocchinia, 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- The Selandian (Paleocene) mollusc fauna from Copenhagen, Denmark: the Poul Harder 1920 collection5
- Stratigraphic interpretation of the Neogene marine-continental record in the Maaseik well (49W0220) in the Roer Valley Graben, NE Belgium1
Each of the 6 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 Brocchinia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Marie Hennion
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Brocchinia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itNeogastropoda through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.