Carinodrillia

MNHN Credit:2017 - Fallon P. Project:RECOLNAT · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- PseudomelatomidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
68 occurrences of Carinodrillia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
68 occurrences- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Miocene52%
- Pliocene38%
- Pleistocene9%
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
27 formations
- Gatun Formation14
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group6
- Gurabo Formation5
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group4
- Springvale Formation4
- Nancy Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group4
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The named rock units Carinodrillia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Carinodrillia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Carinodrillia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,578 taxa- Polystira15 sites
- Anadara11 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis10 sites
- Bellucina actinus9 sites
- Dentalium (Dentalium)9 sites
- Hindsiclava consors9 sites
- Macrocallista maculata9 sites
- Polinices stanislasmeunieri9 sites
- Architectonica nobilis8 sites
- Cyclostremiscus (Ponocyclus) pentagonus8 sites
- Strioterebrum8 sites
- Antillophos candeanus7 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides)7 sites
- Calyptraea centralis7 sites
- Cerithium7 sites
- Clathrodrillia gatunensis7 sites
- Oliva gatunensis7 sites
- Varicorbula disparilis7 sites
- Volvarina leander7 sites
- Bivetiella dariena6 sites
- Cruziturricula fusinus6 sites
- Gadilopsis6 sites
- Lirophora6 sites
- Natica bolus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Carinodrillia, 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
19 references- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama15
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions12
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel10
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).10
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad4
- The Miocene Mollusca from Quilon, Kerala (India)2
- Part 2. The Pliocene Turridae of Saint Petersburg, Florida2
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results2
- Taphonomic and paleoecological analyses (mollusks and fishes) of the Súa Member condensed shelled, upper Onzole Formation (Early Pliocene, Ecuador)1
- Moluscos de la Formación Agueguexquite (Plioceno inferior) de Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México1
- Mollusca: Shoal River Formation (Middle Miocene1
- Comparacion entre la fauna malacologica de las principales formaciones del Plioceno marino de Costa Rica, America Central1
Each of the 68 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. 7 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 Carinodrillia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- MNHN Credit:2017 - Fallon P. Project:RECOLNAT
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Carinodrillia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPseudomelatomidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1919)