Cosmasyrinx

Cosmasyrinx is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, unassigned to a family within the superfamily Conoidea.

Cosmasyrinx

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 10 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesOligocene67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya33.9 Mya66.8 Mya26.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Cosmasyrinx on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

10 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

6 formations

La Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.61°WPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°EKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°EKauru — 45.05°S, 170.77°ELópez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WDeborah Volcanic — 45.18°S, 170.91°ESubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.64°W

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The named rock units Cosmasyrinx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cosmasyrinx and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Cosmasyrinx and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cosmasyrinx, 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

Each of the 10 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 Cosmasyrinx

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.

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 itTurrinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1931