Cantharus cowlitzensis
No picture of Cantharus cowlitzensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cantharus cowlitzensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CantharusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cantharus cowlitzensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Markley Formation1
- Cowlitz Formation1
- Coaledo Formation1
- Tukwila Formation · Puget Group1
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The named rock units Cantharus cowlitzensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cantharus cowlitzensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cantharus cowlitzensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Spirocrypta pileum3 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Cantharus (Eocantharus) cowlitzensis2 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni2 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) hotsoni2 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis2 sites
- Priscoficus cowlitzensis2 sites
- Sinum obliquum2 sites
- Venericardia (Pacificor) clarki2 sites
- Acrilla (Ferminoscala) aragoensis1 site
- Acutostrea idrianensis fettkei1 site
- Ameranella kewi1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Astreopra duwamishensis1 site
- Balanophyllia washingtonensis1 site
- Benoistia californica1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cooperi1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Brachiodontes1 site
- Brisaster1 site
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi1 site
- Calorebama dilleri kirbyi1 site
- Calorebama inornata1 site
- Cantharus (Calicantharus) californicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cantharus cowlitzensis, 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
3 references- Fauna from the Markley Formation (Upper Eocene) on Pleasant Creek, California2
- Marine fauna of the middle Eocene Tukwila Formation, King County1
- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon1
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
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No picture of Cantharus cowlitzensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cantharus cowlitzensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cantharus cowlitzensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCantharus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Turner 1938