Cymatophos

Cymatophos

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 160 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 160 occurrencesMiocene — about 150 of 160 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 160 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 160 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 12 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 16 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 23 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 23 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 23 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

160 occurrences of Cymatophos on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

160 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

21 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.33°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCantaure — 11.95°N, 70.03°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WJimol — 11.90°N, 71.39°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WBelmont — 12.50°N, 61.44°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.41°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WTuira — 8.22°N, 77.58°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.71°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WAngostura — 1.09°N, 78.99°WAngostura — 0.80°N, 78.93°WPicaderos — 0.80°N, 78.93°WNancy Point — 9.06°N, 81.80°WZorritos — 3.80°S, 80.50°WCharco Azul — 8.55°N, 83.00°WPenita — 8.00°N, 82.97°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WRio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WSanta Rita — 10.23°N, 70.65°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°WAlajuela — 9.21°N, 79.59°W

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The named rock units Cymatophos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cymatophos and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cymatophos and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

974 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Cymatophos, 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

20 references

Each of the 160 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. 8 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 content1

Picture of Cymatophos

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Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cymatophos 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pilsbry and Olsson 1941)