Capulus americanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CapulusPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
32 occurrences of Capulus americanus 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
32 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group27
- Red Bluff Formation2
- Yazoo Clay Formation · Jackson Group2
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The named rock units Capulus americanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Capulus americanus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Capulus americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
433 taxa- Caestocorbula wailesiana15 sites
- Corbula densata15 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata14 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus13 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus13 sites
- Hipponix13 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata13 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta12 sites
- Natica permunda12 sites
- Spisula jacksonensis12 sites
- Alveinus minutus11 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus11 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata11 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis11 sites
- Limopsis radiata10 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta10 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis10 sites
- Dentalium9 sites
- Endopachys maclurii9 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis9 sites
- Tellinidae9 sites
- Balanophyllia irrorata8 sites
- Bittium koeneni8 sites
- Crassinella pygmaea8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Capulus americanus, 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
7 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda13
- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi9
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals4
- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi2
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
- Observations on the Eocene deposit of Jackson, Mississippi, with descriptions of thirty-four new species of shells and corals1
Each of the 32 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 Capulus americanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Capulus americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCapulus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1854