Cymatosyrinx

Cymatosyrinx is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.

Cymatosyrinx

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
DrilliidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 8 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 43 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 17 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences37.71 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Cymatosyrinx on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

43 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

19 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.92°N, 91.92°WTamiami — 28.29°N, 81.41°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 26.01°N, 81.13°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WYazoo — 31.63°N, 91.82°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WSt Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°W

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The named rock units Cymatosyrinx 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.

Cymatosyrinx and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Cymatosyrinx and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,797 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Cymatosyrinx, 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

26 references

Each of the 43 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. 14 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 Cymatosyrinx

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cymatosyrinx 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1889)