Capulus

Capulus is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Capulidae, the cap snails.

Capulus

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
CapulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Capulidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Capulidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Capulidae
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 213 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 213 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 213 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 14 of 213 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 213 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 213 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 213 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 213 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 213 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 213 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 213 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 26 of 213 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 213 occurrencesEocene — about 50 of 213 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 213 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 213 occurrencesPliocene — about 32 of 213 occurrencesPleistocene — about 41 of 213 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 0.5 occurrences144–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–72 Mya — about 10 occurrences72–57 Mya — about 20 occurrences57–43 Mya — about 13 occurrences43–29 Mya — about 42 occurrences29–14 Mya — about 13 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 91 occurrences419.62 Mya11.7 ka431 Mya0 Mya

213 occurrences of Capulus 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

213 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

62 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°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°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WNacatoch 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°WLillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°ERed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WCalabriano — 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°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°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°ESabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°ESabbie di Asti — 43.32°N, 11.33°EReinbek Stuffe — 51.77°N, 6.62°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.44°N, 98.86°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WNeylandville Marl — 33.37°N, 95.69°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WEntrerriense — 42.17°S, 64.08°WEntrerriense — 42.25°S, 64.08°WKincaid — 30.32°N, 97.43°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.91°N, 87.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°W

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The named rock units Capulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 66 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Capulus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Capulus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Capulus, 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

79 references

Each of the 213 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. 67 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 Capulus

Credit
Georges Jansoone ( JoJan )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Capulus ungaricus · SMF:384687

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 itCapulidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Monfort 1810