Cochlespirella
No picture of Cochlespirella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cochlespirella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
31 occurrences of Cochlespirella 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
31 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
8 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group14
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Stone City Formation3
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group2
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The named rock units Cochlespirella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cochlespirella and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cochlespirella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
646 taxa- Ficus20 sites
- Polinices20 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta20 sites
- Turritella20 sites
- Pyramidella19 sites
- Ancilla staminea18 sites
- Buccitriton texanum18 sites
- Sinum18 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus17 sites
- Latirus moorei17 sites
- Michela trabeatoides17 sites
- Architectonica16 sites
- Athleta petrosa16 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni16 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)16 sites
- Hastula16 sites
- Microdrillia16 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata16 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis16 sites
- Trigonostoma babylonicum16 sites
- Bonellitia15 sites
- Cadulus15 sites
- Fusimitra15 sites
- Gegania antiquata15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Cochlespirella, 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
4 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals21
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda5
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)2
Each of the 31 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 content0
No picture of Cochlespirella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cochlespirella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cochlespirella 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTurridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1903