Caricella

Caricella

Mississippi. State Geologist; Wailes, Benjamin L. C. (Benjamin Leonard Covington), 1797-1862 · No restrictions · via Wikidata/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
ScaphellinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 227 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 227 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 28 of 227 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 166 of 227 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 227 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 227 occurrencesMiocene108–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 8 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 18 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 6 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 6 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 9 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 10 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 64 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 60 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 13 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 10 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–9.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences93.9 Mya13.82 Mya108 Mya10 Mya

227 occurrences of Caricella 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

227 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

45 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.86°N, 88.70°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 35.01°N, 90.79°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 91.90°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.00°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 31.49°N, 93.47°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WCook Mountain — 31.14°N, 95.92°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.83°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WRed Bluff — 31.84°N, 88.75°WWeches — 29.80°N, 97.65°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.53°N, 94.41°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WByram — 32.33°N, 90.20°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.06°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.83°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.89°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.70°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WYazoo — 31.63°N, 91.82°WYazoo — 35.01°N, 90.79°WYazoo Clay — 31.86°N, 88.70°WYazoo Clay — 31.78°N, 92.49°WYazoo Clay — 32.41°N, 90.24°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 31.58°N, 85.77°WHatchetigbee — 31.36°N, 86.09°WHatchetigbee — 31.94°N, 88.06°WHatchetigbee — 31.96°N, 88.30°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WKosciusko — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMiyara — 24.51°N, 124.26°ESoldado — 10.08°N, 62.01°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WMcBean — 33.50°N, 80.89°W

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The named rock units Caricella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caricella and its relatives

Eocene

Where Caricella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,604 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Caricella, 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

42 references

Each of the 227 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. 30 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 Caricella

Credit
Mississippi. State Geologist; Wailes, Benjamin L. C. (Benjamin Leonard Covington), 1797-1862
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Caricella 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 itScaphellinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1835