Cyclophoridae

Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenioglossa belonging to the subclass Caenogastropoda.

Cyclophoridae

Phung C-C, Yu FTY, Liew T-S (2017) A checklist of land snails from the west coast islands of Sabah, Borneo (Mollusca,… · CC BY 4.0 · 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
CyclophoroideaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 41 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 41 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 41 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 41 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 41 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 41 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences110.1 Mya129 ka115 Mya0 Mya

41 occurrences of Cyclophoridae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

41 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

10 formations

Bianqiao — 35.44°N, 117.85°EBianqiao — 35.44°N, 117.85°ECreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WPui Beds — 45.49°N, 23.09°EHang Mon — 20.94°N, 104.37°EBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.53°WLower Gelingseh — 1.50°N, 116.50°ELa Posa — 42.08°N, 0.80°EArén — 42.17°N, 1.01°EGucheng — 35.44°N, 117.85°EDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°E

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The named rock units Cyclophoridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclophoridae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cyclophoridae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

521 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Cyclophoridae, 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

18 references

Each of the 41 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Cyclophoridae

Credit
Phung C-C, Yu FTY, Liew T-S (2017) A checklist of land snails from the west coast islands of Sabah, Borneo (Mollusca,…
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CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyclophoridae 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

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

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What may have been alongside itCyclophoroidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1847