Cryoturris
Cryoturris is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

J. Gardner · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
- MangeliidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 774 ka.
31 occurrences of Cryoturris on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
31 occurrences- Miocene23%
- Pliocene48%
- Pleistocene29%
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
10 formations
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group11
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group4
- Caloosahatchee Formation4
- Gatun Formation3
- Agueguexquite Formation3
- Moin Formation · Limon Group2
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The named rock units Cryoturris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cryoturris and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cryoturris and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
1,306 taxa- Anadara8 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita)7 sites
- Anomia6 sites
- Antalis6 sites
- Glyphostoma6 sites
- Solariorbis6 sites
- Strioterebrum6 sites
- Trachycardium6 sites
- Zebinella6 sites
- Acteocina5 sites
- Anomalocardia5 sites
- Bulla striata5 sites
- Busycon5 sites
- Carditamera5 sites
- Cavilinga trisulcata5 sites
- Chlorostoma (Omphalius)5 sites
- Costaglycymeris subovata5 sites
- Crepidula plana5 sites
- Drillia5 sites
- Erycina5 sites
- Gouldia5 sites
- Macrocallista maculata5 sites
- Mitrella5 sites
- Nuculana acuta5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Cryoturris, 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
10 references- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results7
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama5
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions4
- Part 2. The Pliocene Turridae of Saint Petersburg, Florida4
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida4
- Moluscos de la Formación Agueguexquite (Plioceno inferior) de Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México3
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral thicket from North Carolina: an example of temporal change in community structure and function1
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).1
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda1
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 content1
Picture of Cryoturris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- J. Gardner
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cryoturris 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cryoturris”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMangeliidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodring 1928)