Cantharus

Cantharus is a genus of sea snails in the family Pisaniidae.

Cantharus

Manuel CABALLER · 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
BuccinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
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 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 193 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 193 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 193 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 40 of 193 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 193 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 57 of 193 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 193 occurrencesPleistocene — about 30 of 193 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 5 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 8 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 9 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 9 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 8 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 13 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 10 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 25 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 40 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka108 Mya0 Mya

193 occurrences of Cantharus 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

193 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

68 formations

Budden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.59°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCoffee Sand — 34.84°N, 88.31°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.93°N, 88.52°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WKama — 19.52°N, 95.47°EKama — 19.62°N, 95.30°EKama — 19.53°N, 95.38°EGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.52°N, 71.28°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WAquia — 38.58°N, 77.12°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WAquia — 38.35°N, 77.30°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.17°WSitsayan — 21.10°N, 94.80°ESitsayan — 20.17°N, 94.92°ESitsayan — 20.93°N, 94.85°ESingu — 20.93°N, 94.85°ESingu — 19.40°N, 95.23°EGaj — 23.33°N, 68.85°EGaj — 24.87°N, 67.05°EGaj — 26.88°N, 67.26°EHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WChengapara — 25.17°N, 90.67°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°E

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The named rock units Cantharus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cantharus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cantharus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,560 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Cantharus, and this reads all 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

89 references

Each of the 193 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. 77 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 content3

Picture of Cantharus

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Spondyliosoma cantharus · UWFC:ADULT COLLECTION:UW 013239

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Röding 1798)