Cavolinia

Cavolinia is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Cavoliniidae.

Cavolinia

Forsskål, 1775 · CC0 · 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
CavoliniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cavoliniidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cavoliniidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cavoliniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 2 of 99 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 33 of 99 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 48 of 99 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 99 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 29 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

99 occurrences of Cavolinia on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

99 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

19 formations

Cercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.17°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBelmont — 12.48°N, 61.42°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WMao — 19.54°N, 71.19°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WSampolakosa — 5.56°S, 122.74°EToukoshan — 24.60°N, 120.73°ECaimito — 9.16°N, 79.87°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°ESzekou — 22.01°N, 120.72°ERiviere Gauche — 18.37°N, 72.65°WAghia Varvara — 35.17°N, 25.17°EChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.07°WTamari — 34.77°N, 138.04°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°W

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The named rock units Cavolinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cavolinia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Cavolinia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,565 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Cavolinia, 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

25 references

Each of the 99 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. 13 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 Cavolinia

Credit
Forsskål, 1775
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cavolinia 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.

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 itCavoliniidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Avilgaard 1791