Cylichna temblorensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CylichnaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Cylichna temblorensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
13 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Cylichna temblorensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cylichna temblorensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cylichna temblorensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis13 sites
- Nassarius (Catilon) arnoldi12 sites
- Antillophos posunculensis11 sites
- Pyramidella (Longchaeus) cooperi11 sites
- Crepidula rostralis10 sites
- Ficus (Trophosycon) kerniana10 sites
- Megasurcula howei10 sites
- Neverita (Glossaulax) andersoni10 sites
- Turricula buwaldana10 sites
- Calyptraea filosa8 sites
- Cancellaria (Euclia) condoni8 sites
- Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus8 sites
- Mangelia (Notocytharella) kernensis8 sites
- Neverita (Glossaulax) jamesae8 sites
- Olivella (Olivella) ischnon8 sites
- Ophiodermella temblorensis8 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) lincolnensis8 sites
- Sinum scopulosum8 sites
- Turricula piercei8 sites
- Turritella ocoyana8 sites
- Epitonium (Nitidiscala) tedfordi7 sites
- Mitrella anchuela7 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) posuncula7 sites
- Opalia (Rugatiscala) williamsoni7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cylichna temblorensis, 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
2 references- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California12
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California1
Each of the 13 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 Cylichna temblorensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCylichna through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Keen 1943