Cimomia imperialis

Cimomia imperialis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CimomiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 27 of 27 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56.5 Mya40.5 Mya

27 occurrences of Cimomia imperialis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

27 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

4 formations

London Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°ELondon Clay — 51.58°N, 0.15°WLondon Clay — 51.49°N, 0.31°WLondon Clay — 51.29°N, 1.05°WLondon Clay — 51.28°N, 0.99°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 0.80°ELillebælt Clay — 55.60°N, 9.81°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.74°W

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The named rock units Cimomia imperialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cimomia imperialis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cimomia imperialis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

708 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Cimomia imperialis, 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

9 references

Each of the 27 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. 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 Cimomia imperialis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cimomia imperialis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCimomia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1812)