Cheilea

Cheilea is a genus of small limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.

Cheilea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HipponicidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, suspension feederPBDB, for Hipponicidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hipponicidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Hipponicidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 52 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 53 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 53 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 53 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 53 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences52 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

53 occurrences of Cheilea 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

53 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

18 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WSantee Limestone — 33.27°N, 79.65°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WOtekaike Limestone — 44.99°S, 170.33°EFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WShinzato — 26.18°N, 127.81°ERed Bluff Tuff — 44.30°S, 176.25°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°ERa — 18.00°S, 178.00°EMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WAgueguexquite — 18.15°N, 94.42°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°E

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The named rock units Cheilea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cheilea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cheilea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,760 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Cheilea, 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

28 references

Each of the 53 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. 16 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 Cheilea

Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cheilea 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 itHipponicidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Modeer 1793