Cavolinia marginata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CavoliniaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cavoliniidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cavoliniidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cavoliniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence15.98 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

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

10 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

3 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBelmont — 12.46°N, 61.43°WSampolakosa — 5.56°S, 122.74°E

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The named rock units Cavolinia marginata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cavolinia marginata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Cavolinia marginata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

606 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cavolinia marginata, 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

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Cavolinia marginata 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 Cavolinia marginata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cavolinia marginata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itCavolinia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bronn 1962)