Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StaphylaeaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
12 occurrences of Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
12 occurrences- Miocene8%
- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene58%
- Holocene17%
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
3 formations
- Ndalithoni Limestone Formation2
- Aldabra Limestone Formation2
- Sobe Formation · Ryukyu Group1
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The named rock units Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Turbo (Turbo) petholatus4 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Luria isabella3 sites
- Neritopsis radula3 sites
- Acropora2 sites
- Acropora humilis2 sites
- Acropora hyacinthus2 sites
- Cantharus2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Galaxea2 sites
- Hydrolithon onkodes2 sites
- Ipsa childreni2 sites
- Isopora palifera2 sites
- Lithophyllum2 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides2 sites
- Lithothamnion2 sites
- Neogoniolithon2 sites
- Pocillopora2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Porolithon2 sites
- Prionovolva bulla2 sites
- Pyrene testudinaria2 sites
- Talostolida teres2 sites
- Titanoderma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus, 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
8 references- Mass mortality following disturbance in Holocene coral reefs from Papua New Guinea2
- Faunal response to the instability of reef habitats: Pleistocene molluscan assemblages of Aldabra Atoll2
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae)2
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits2
- Skwarko, 19941
- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca1
- Geology of Lau, Fiji1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itStaphylaea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)