Cancellaria

Cancellaria is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Cancellaria

Edwardtbabinski at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5 · 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
CancellariinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 747 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 747 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 27 of 747 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 31 of 747 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 747 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 409 of 747 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 160 of 747 occurrencesPleistocene — about 79 of 747 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 8 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 13 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 11 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 28 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 53 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 93 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 111 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 84 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 120 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 163 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

747 occurrences of Cancellaria 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

747 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

172 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.49°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.54°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.02°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WAstoria — 44.73°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°WOlcese — 35.51°N, 118.86°WClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WNavidad — 44.65°S, 74.58°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.75°WNavidad — 33.83°S, 71.83°WNavidad — 33.94°S, 71.85°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.89°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WRound Mountain — 35.43°N, 118.80°WRound Mountain — 35.44°N, 118.89°WKubota — 37.50°N, 140.00°ECanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ECantaure — 11.90°N, 69.85°W

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The named rock units Cancellaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 148 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cancellaria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cancellaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,115 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 352 sites for Cancellaria, 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

193 references

Each of the 747 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. 181 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 content2

Picture of Cancellaria

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Photogrammetry

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Specimen
Cancellaria reticulatum · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:279402-Mollusca

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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCancellariinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1799