Crucibulum

Crucibulum, commonly known as cup-and-saucer snails, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calyptraeidae.

Crucibulum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalyptraeidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 438 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 438 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 438 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 438 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 438 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 255 of 438 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 92 of 438 occurrencesPleistocene — about 80 of 438 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 31 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 41 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 81 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 80 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 54 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 134 occurrences100.5 Mya129 ka108 Mya0 Mya

438 occurrences of Crucibulum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

438 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

86 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WChoptank — 38.73°N, 76.02°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.62°N, 76.12°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.32°WCastilletes — 11.97°N, 71.29°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.35°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WYorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.15°N, 76.74°WOak Grove — 30.90°N, 84.58°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WTalparo — 10.63°N, 61.28°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 39.47°N, 75.35°WKirkwood — 38.94°N, 74.91°WKirkwood — 39.10°N, 74.72°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WKirkwood — 39.43°N, 75.23°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WJackson Bluff — 30.97°N, 84.53°WJackson Bluff — 30.63°N, 86.17°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WSt Mary's — 38.36°N, 76.39°WSt Mary's — 37.66°N, 76.75°WSt Mary's — 37.56°N, 76.78°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WPancho Rico — 36.10°N, 120.88°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.89°WPancho Rico — 35.99°N, 120.79°WPancho Rico — 35.94°N, 120.68°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WGrand Bay — 12.48°N, 61.42°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.21°N, 77.57°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.71°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.20°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.33°S, 70.87°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.70°S, 70.97°W

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The named rock units Crucibulum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crucibulum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Crucibulum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,339 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 213 sites for Crucibulum, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

87 references

Each of the 438 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. 75 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 content2

Picture of Crucibulum

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H. Zell
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC0 Public Domain
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The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schumacher 1817