Cuvierinidae

Cuvierinidae is a family of gastropods belonging to the order Pteropoda.

Cuvierinidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CavolinioideaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Oligocene — about 11 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 19 occurrencesMiocene27–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23.04 Mya20.45 Mya27.8 Mya15.5 Mya

19 occurrences of Cuvierinidae 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

19 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

3 formations

Falun de St. Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WFalun d'Escornebeou et Sainte Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°W

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The named rock units Cuvierinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cuvierinidae, 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

1 reference

Each of the 19 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 Cuvierinidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cuvierinidae 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

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 itCavolinioidea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1840