Cellana capensis

Cellana capensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CellanaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Nacellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Nacellidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Nacellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.333 Mya3.6 Mya12.1 Mya0 Mya

2 occurrences of Cellana capensis on record. 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

2 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

1 formation

Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°E

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The named rock units Cellana capensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cellana capensis, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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

Media content2

Picture of Cellana capensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cellana capensis · MNHN:IM:2009-14093

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)