Cocculina

Cocculina is a genus of sea snails, deep-sea limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cocculinidae.

Cocculina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CocculinidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cocculinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cocculinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cocculinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 107 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 28 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 28 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences110.1 Mya2.58 Mya115 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Cocculina on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

28 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

14 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°ECook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°EVejle Fjord — 55.18°N, 11.88°EShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.72°ERiviere Gauche — 18.37°N, 72.65°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EPoerters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.42°WBoom — 51.12°N, 4.36°E

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The named rock units Cocculina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cocculina and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Cocculina and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,750 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Cocculina, 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 28 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 Cocculina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

The description on this site

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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 itCocculinidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1882