Cadulus

Cadulus is a large genus of small tusk shells in the family Gadilidae. It contains over fifty-one described species.

Cadulus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GadilinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Gadilida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Gadilida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gadilida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 504 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 78 of 504 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 46 of 504 occurrencesEocene — about 191 of 504 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 31 of 504 occurrencesMiocene — about 81 of 504 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 46 of 504 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 504 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–79 Mya — about 6 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 6 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 24 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 38 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 20 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 23 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 32 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 30 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 26 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 95 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 14 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 19 occurrences28–23 Mya — about 7 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 7 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–9.3 Mya — about 39 occurrences9.3–4.7 Mya — about 29 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 65 occurrences132.6 Mya129 ka140 Mya0 Mya

504 occurrences of Cadulus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

504 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

104 formations

Cook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WCook Mountain — 29.71°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.97°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.94°N, 86.11°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WLisbon — 31.60°N, 87.55°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.45°N, 85.63°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.53°N, 87.32°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WNanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WNanjemoy — 38.51°N, 77.02°WNanjemoy — 38.70°N, 76.97°WNanjemoy — 38.69°N, 76.53°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.82°N, 76.75°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.08°WKiowa — 37.40°N, 99.02°WKiowa — 38.60°N, 97.82°WKiowa — 38.39°N, 97.92°WKiowa — 38.60°N, 97.93°WKiowa — 38.60°N, 97.99°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.08°N, 97.50°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WWeches — 31.76°N, 93.09°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WChoptank — 38.73°N, 76.02°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WCoffee Sand — 34.66°N, 88.57°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCrockett — 31.40°N, 93.70°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°W

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The named rock units Cadulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 80 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cadulus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cadulus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,080 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 357 sites for Cadulus, 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

99 references

Each of the 504 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. 87 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 Cadulus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itGadilinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Philippi 1844