Cinulia

Cinulia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RingiculidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ringiculidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ringiculidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ringiculidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 103.3 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 22 occurrencesEocene115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–101 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103.3 Mya56 Mya115 Mya47 Mya

22 occurrences of Cinulia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

22 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

15 formations

Lefipan — 43.04°S, 69.33°WLefipan — 42.63°S, 69.98°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WEsna — 25.44°N, 32.36°E? — 51.15°S, 72.38°W? — 50.60°S, 72.50°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WDenison — 32.79°N, 97.32°WTe Wera Sandstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°EBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WSanta Marta — 64.17°S, 57.75°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WUpper Greensand — 50.59°N, 1.24°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.59°N, 1.24°WGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°ELefipán — 42.74°S, 69.61°WCerro Cazador — 51.54°S, 72.34°W

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The named rock units Cinulia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cinulia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cinulia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

681 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Cinulia, 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

17 references

Each of the 22 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. 5 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 Cinulia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRingiculidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1847