Cymatium (Cymatium)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CymatiumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 56 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
3 occurrences of Cymatium (Cymatium) on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 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
3 formations
- Mao Formation1
- Gurabo Formation1
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Cymatium (Cymatium) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
255 taxa- Cypraea2 sites
- Olivella2 sites
- ? Acrocoleum cancellata1 site
- ? Eocithera laurencei1 site
- ? Paleopsepharea sp.1 site
- Acanthrophon striatus1 site
- Acar1 site
- Acirsa1 site
- Acirsa (Acirsella)1 site
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa)1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Acteonidae1 site
- Agatrix1 site
- Agnocardia cinderellae1 site
- Amaea1 site
- Ampullina (Pseudamaura)1 site
- Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense1 site
- Anadara (Rasia)1 site
- Anticlinura1 site
- Antillocyathus maoensis1 site
- Antillophos1 site
- Antillophos (Antillophos) moorei1 site
- Aphera islacolonis1 site
- Aquilofusus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cymatium (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
2 references- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
Each of the 3 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- multimediapackreplicator
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Cymatium (Cymatium) 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 Cymatium (Cymatium), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
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What may have been alongside itCymatium through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798