Cymbiola

Cymbiola is a genus of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Amoriinae of the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Cymbiola

Marie Hennion · CC BY 4.0 · 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
VolutinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 11 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.8–8.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.3–7.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.9–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13.82 Mya3.6 Mya16.5 Mya2.1 Mya

13 occurrences of Cymbiola on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

13 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

7 formations

Cilanang — 6.73°S, 108.67°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EDry Creek Sands — 34.97°S, 138.54°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°EFyansford — 38.13°S, 144.28°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°E

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The named rock units Cymbiola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cymbiola and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cymbiola and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cymbiola, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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 content2

Picture of Cymbiola

Credit
Marie Hennion
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itVolutinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1831