Cuphosolenus

Cuphosolenus is a genus of extinct small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aporrhaidae and the superfamily Stromboidea, known from the Jurassic and lower Cretaceous periods. Cuphosolenus was named by Edouard Piette in 1876.

Cuphosolenus

Humbert (????-????) Published by Louis Édouard Stanislas Piette (1827-1906; France) Note: (Could he be this one? Aloï… · 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
PterocerellinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 115 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous208–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences90–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences201.4 Mya85.7 Mya208 Mya81 Mya

3 occurrences of Cuphosolenus on record. 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

3 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

1 formation

Hochmoos — 47.58°N, 13.51°E

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The named rock units Cuphosolenus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cuphosolenus, 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

Each of the 3 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 Cuphosolenus

Credit
Humbert (????-????) Published by Louis Édouard Stanislas Piette (1827-1906; France) Note: (Could he be this one? Aloï…
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cuphosolenus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itPterocerellinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Piette 1876)