Cymatium

Cymatium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RanellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 134 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 134 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 134 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 134 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 43 of 134 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 26 of 134 occurrencesPleistocene — about 47 of 134 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 24 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 20 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 45 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

134 occurrences of Cymatium on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

134 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

41 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.08°WNagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WGee Greensand — 45.04°S, 170.94°EGee Greensand — 45.18°S, 170.91°EChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WOkinoshima — 32.70°N, 129.77°EOkinoshima — 32.78°N, 129.83°EWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 157.95°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WTukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°WRiver Bend — 35.11°N, 77.04°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WSan Lorenzo — 37.12°N, 122.02°WVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.38°N, 124.22°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WBelmont — 12.44°N, 61.47°W

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The named rock units Cymatium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cymatium and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cymatium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,521 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Cymatium, 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

53 references

Each of the 134 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. 41 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 content3

Picture of Cymatium

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cymatium moritinctum caribbaeum · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:142885-Mollusca

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Röding 1798)