Cymella
No picture of Cymella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cymella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PoromyidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Poromyidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Poromyidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Poromyidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
61 occurrences of Cymella 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
61 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
23 formations
- Merchantville Formation7
- Black Creek Formation6
- Nacatoch Sand Formation · Navarro Group5
- Pawkowki Formation4
- Owl Creek Formation3
- Bearpaw Formation3
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The named rock units Cymella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cymella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cymella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
748 taxa- Cymbophora30 sites
- Cyprimeria26 sites
- Veniella conradi26 sites
- Granocardium25 sites
- Nuculana25 sites
- Aphrodina24 sites
- Syncyclonema23 sites
- Caestocorbula crassiplica21 sites
- Linearis21 sites
- Liopistha protexta21 sites
- Nucula percrassa20 sites
- Anomia argentaria19 sites
- Glycymeris19 sites
- Legumen ellipticum19 sites
- Pseudolimea reticulata19 sites
- Inoceramus18 sites
- Leptosolen biplicata18 sites
- Striarca18 sites
- Crenella serica17 sites
- Crassatella vadosa16 sites
- Tenea16 sites
- Vetericardiella16 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum14 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Cymella, 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
17 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages11
- Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland9
- Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group8
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas6
- The Cretaceous formations6
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals4
- Bivalves and Gastropods from the Middle Campanian Anacacho Limestone, south central Texas3
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf3
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain3
- Paleontology, biostratigraphy, and depositional environments of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in the New Jersey coastal plain1
- Paleoecology of the Aguja formation, Brewster County, Texas1
- Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary1
Each of the 61 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. 5 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Caryocorbula cymella · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:306064
No picture of Cymella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cymella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPoromyidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1864)