Cymatium femorale

Cymatium femorale is a species of predatory sea snail in the family Cymatiidae. Its shell is commonly known as the angular triton shell and is frequently found in the West Indies.

Cymatium femorale

Shellnut · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
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 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.58 Mya129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Cymatium femorale on record. 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

5 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

3 formations

Moin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCumana — 10.87°N, 75.09°W

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The named rock units Cymatium femorale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Cymatium femorale, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Cymatium femorale

Credit
Shellnut
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cymatium femorale 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Linnaeus 1758)