Cylichna venusta
No picture of Cylichna venusta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Cylichna venusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Cylichna venusta on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Aquia Formation · Pamunkey Group5
- Nanjemoy Formation · Pamunkey Group3
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The named rock units Cylichna venusta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cylichna venusta and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Cylichna venusta and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Aetobatis arcuatus1 site
- Carcharias cuspidatus1 site
- Fusus (Levifusus) trabeatus1 site
- Mangilia (Pleurotomella) bellistriata1 site
- Meretrix subimpressa1 site
- Modiola potomacensis1 site
- Nypa burtini1 site
- Otodus auriculatus1 site
- Palaeophis grandis1 site
- Palaeowetherellia1 site
- Protocardia virginiana1 site
- Wetherellia marylandica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cylichna venusta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda7
- Contributions to the Eocene fauna of the Middle Atlantic slope1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Cylichna venusta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Cylichna venusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cylichna venusta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCylichna through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1895