Cymbophora gabbiana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CymbophoraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Mactridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Mactridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mactridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
32 occurrences of Cymbophora gabbiana on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
32 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
8 formations
- Jalama Formation13
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group5
- Chatsworth Formation5
- Tuna Canyon Formation4
- Redding Formation2
- Chico Formation1
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The named rock units Cymbophora gabbiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cymbophora gabbiana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cymbophora gabbiana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Glycymerita veatchii21 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana16 sites
- Calva (Calva) varians12 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii10 sites
- Biplica obliqua9 sites
- Anomia jalama7 sites
- Corbicula astartoides7 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa6 sites
- Bullamirifica ainiktos6 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana6 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi6 sites
- Popenoella hemphilli6 sites
- Ampullina concipio5 sites
- Crassatella saulae5 sites
- Legumen ooides5 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) daileyi5 sites
- Paraesa lens5 sites
- Volutoderma averillii5 sites
- Anomia lineata4 sites
- Dentalium4 sites
- Diplodonta davisi4 sites
- Etea occidentalis4 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) canadensis4 sites
- Gyrodes expansa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Cymbophora gabbiana, 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
7 references- Mollusca from the upper Cretaceous Jalama Formation, Santa Barbara County, California13
- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California6
- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results4
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California4
- Described or figured West Coast species of Cymbophora3
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
Each of the 32 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
Picture of Cymbophora gabbiana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cymbophora gabbiana was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itCymbophora through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1902)