Cypraeorbis

Cypraeorbis is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cypraeinae of the family Cypraeidae.

Cypraeorbis

Manuel CABALLER · 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
CypraeorbiniPBDB
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 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 117 occurrencesEocene — about 34 of 117 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 117 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 69 of 117 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 117 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 117 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 9 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 11 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 25 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 25 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–8.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.3–6.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.3–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence56 Mya5.333 Mya60 Mya2 Mya

117 occurrences of Cypraeorbis 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

117 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

27 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.59°N, 84.58°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WChipola — 28.57°N, 80.79°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WCook Mountain — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 31.97°N, 88.71°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.35°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WWeches — 31.62°N, 94.89°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.28°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.33°N, 90.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCaimito — 9.21°N, 79.82°WCaimito — 9.25°N, 79.67°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WCalcaire à Astéries — 43.62°N, 1.05°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 19.13°N, 70.65°WMolare — 44.43°N, 8.32°EMolare — 44.52°N, 8.38°ESantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WTalara — 4.74°S, 81.30°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.08°WSoldado — 10.08°N, 62.01°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WSaman — 4.65°S, 81.30°WCipero Marl — 10.27°N, 61.38°WYazoo Clay — 31.78°N, 92.49°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WSan Juan — 16.59°N, 92.89°W

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The named rock units Cypraeorbis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypraeorbis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cypraeorbis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,976 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Cypraeorbis, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

33 references

Each of the 117 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. 21 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 Cypraeorbis

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cypraeorbis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itCypraeorbini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1865)