Costosyrnola

Natural History Museum Rotterdam · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterostrophiaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 15.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Costosyrnola 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
4 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
3 formations
- Cambay Shale Formation2
- Waihao Greensand Formation1
- Rifle Butts Formation · Kaierero Group1
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The named rock units Costosyrnola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Costosyrnola and its relatives
EoceneWhere Costosyrnola and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Cylichna (Cylichna) ypresiana2 sites
- Eopreangeria mangrolensis2 sites
- Lyria (Lyrispina) cossmanni2 sites
- Megastomia canaliculata2 sites
- Natica naroliensis2 sites
- Pyrenoturris soriensis2 sites
- Ringicula knolli2 sites
- Serratocerithium indicum2 sites
- Aliculastrum suratense1 site
- Amalda (Gracilispira)1 site
- Amalda bibhae1 site
- Apiotoma (Carinotoma) ramohani1 site
- Archierato accola1 site
- Austrofusus (Austrofusus)1 site
- Bathyarca1 site
- Bellerato seposita1 site
- Benthonella prosoclinata1 site
- Bittium kamalae1 site
- Bittium purnimae1 site
- Caestocorbula1 site
- Carinacca1 site
- Cerithiella1 site
- Cingulina eamesi1 site
- Cirsotrema1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Costosyrnola, 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
3 references- First report of heterobranch microgastropods from an early Eocene marginal marine succession of Cambay Basin, western India2
- Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics1
- The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision1
Each of the 4 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 Costosyrnola
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Natural History Museum Rotterdam
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Costosyrnola 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHeterostrophia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.