Capulidae

The Capulidae, the cap snails or cap shells, are a taxonomic family of limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs.

Capulidae

Georges Jansoone ( JoJan ) · CC BY 3.0 · 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
CapuloideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 419 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 345 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 345 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 345 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 14 of 345 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 345 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 345 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 345 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 345 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 345 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 345 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 345 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 96 of 345 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 345 occurrencesEocene — about 76 of 345 occurrencesOligocene — about 8 of 345 occurrencesMiocene — about 36 of 345 occurrencesPliocene — about 36 of 345 occurrencesPleistocene — about 55 of 345 occurrences431–417 Mya — about 1 occurrence345–331 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–287 Mya — about 3 occurrences287–273 Mya — about 7 occurrences273–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences259–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–230 Mya — about 4 occurrences230–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–201 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences201–187 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–72 Mya — about 57 occurrences72–57 Mya — about 42 occurrences57–43 Mya — about 29 occurrences43–29 Mya — about 54 occurrences29–14 Mya — about 19 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 116 occurrences419.62 Mya11.7 ka431 Mya0 Mya

345 occurrences of Capulidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

345 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

99 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.40°N, 93.71°WMoodys Branch — 32.00°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 32.11°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 30.94°N, 92.94°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WLadd — 33.78°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.73°N, 117.64°WMoreno — 37.23°N, 121.12°WMoreno — 37.27°N, 121.17°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 33.03°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.63°N, 88.22°WPrairie Bluff — 32.66°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.13°N, 87.40°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.42°WLillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.43°ENacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 33.61°N, 95.05°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.52°N, 71.28°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WChico — 39.88°N, 121.70°WChico — 39.65°N, 121.59°WChico — 39.76°N, 121.62°WChico — 38.72°N, 121.21°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WSabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°ESabbie di Asti — 43.32°N, 11.33°ECalabriano — 45.03°N, 10.02°EWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WLower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EPigeon Point — 37.19°N, 122.40°WVaals — 50.77°N, 6.01°EReinbek Stuffe — 51.77°N, 6.62°EChatsworth — 34.20°N, 118.69°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°W

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The named rock units Capulidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 103 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Capulidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Capulidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

4,275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 222 sites for Capulidae, 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

127 references

Each of the 345 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. 115 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 Capulidae

Credit
Georges Jansoone ( JoJan )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1822