Costhyrella abnormis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CosthyrellaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Hydrobiidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Costhyrella abnormis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Costhyrella abnormis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Costhyrella abnormis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Costhyrella abnormis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Amaurellina1 site
- Archicypraea prisca1 site
- Arcopagia1 site
- Bathytormus tenuistria1 site
- Bourdotia1 site
- Bouryia cylindrata1 site
- Bouryia distensa1 site
- Bouryia minor1 site
- Bouryia roberti1 site
- Collonia marginata submarginata1 site
- Costhyrella microscopica1 site
- Cypraedia (Protocypraedia) interposita1 site
- Cyrtopleuropsis1 site
- Donax (Latona)1 site
- Hemicerithium1 site
- Hydrobia (Hydrobia) cylindracea1 site
- Isognomon1 site
- Lapparentia1 site
- Limopsis1 site
- Maussenetia staadti1 site
- Moniquia suzanna1 site
- Nucinella ovalina1 site
- Nucula1 site
- Paraseraphs tetanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Costhyrella abnormis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Costhyrella abnormis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Costhyrella abnormis 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 itCosthyrella through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1862)