Cyrtulotibia unidigitata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtulotibiaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Stromboidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Cyrtulotibia unidigitata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
11 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group9
- Ameke Formation1
- Ilaro Formation1
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The named rock units Cyrtulotibia unidigitata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyrtulotibia unidigitata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cyrtulotibia unidigitata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Protonoetia nigeriensis9 sites
- Cardita costaenodulosis8 sites
- Fossularca africana8 sites
- Amekichilus suturocostatum7 sites
- Crepidula falconeri7 sites
- Eovolva nigeriensis7 sites
- Stellaxis bicingulata7 sites
- Strepsidura spirata7 sites
- Sulcobuccinum kitsoni7 sites
- Turritella mauryana7 sites
- Volutospina conicoturrita7 sites
- Bonellitia evulsa6 sites
- Callista kitsoni6 sites
- Conospirus parisiensis6 sites
- Glycymeris nigeriensis6 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera6 sites
- Notocorbula rugosa6 sites
- Phacoides eaglesomei6 sites
- Poirieria calcitrapa6 sites
- Surcula africana6 sites
- Trivelina sphenarium6 sites
- Africoterebellum elongatum5 sites
- Cominella douvillei5 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cyrtulotibia unidigitata, 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
4 references- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria8
- Predatory gastropod boreholes in an Eocene molluscan assemblage from Nigeria1
- Paleoecology of the Eocene Ameki Formation of southeastern Nigeria1
- The geology of part of south-western Nigeria1
Each of the 11 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 Cyrtulotibia unidigitata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyrtulotibia unidigitata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCyrtulotibia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Newton 1922)