Cucullaea littlei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CucullaeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cucullaea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cucullaea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cucullaea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cucullaeidae
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
26 occurrences of Cucullaea littlei on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
26 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Providence Formation7
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group5
- Chiwapa Formation3
- Peedee Formation2
- Prairie Bluff Formation1
- Sandy Hook Formation1
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The named rock units Cucullaea littlei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cucullaea littlei and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cucullaea littlei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
567 taxa- Anomia argentaria24 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata21 sites
- Cymbophora19 sites
- Glycymeris19 sites
- Crassatella vadosa18 sites
- Cyprimeria18 sites
- Veniella conradi18 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis17 sites
- Granocardium17 sites
- Liopistha protexta17 sites
- Pseudolimea reticulata17 sites
- Syncyclonema17 sites
- Crenella serica15 sites
- Nuculana15 sites
- Turritella trilira15 sites
- Serpula13 sites
- Tenea13 sites
- Aphrodina12 sites
- Cyclorisma12 sites
- Gabbigonia eufaulensis12 sites
- Leptosolen biplicata12 sites
- Linearis12 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis12 sites
- Nucula percrassa12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Cucullaea littlei, 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
6 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain11
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages7
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf5
- Fabric of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Marine Macrofaunal Transition at Braggs, Alabama1
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 26 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
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No picture of Cucullaea littlei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cucullaea littlei itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cucullaea littlei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cucullaea littlei 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 itCucullaea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1877