Cythara (Mangelia)

Villiersiella attenuata (Montagu, 1803), a relative of Cythara (Mangelia) — not Cythara (Mangelia) itself

Not Cythara (Mangelia). This is Villiersiella attenuata (Montagu, 1803), a relative — both are Mangeliidae.

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
MangeliidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 188 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 188 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 188 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 188 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 96 of 188 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 34 of 188 occurrencesPleistocene — about 40 of 188 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 22 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 20 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 12 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 23 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 34 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 39 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

188 occurrences of Cythara (Mangelia) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

188 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

46 formations

Chipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WKama — 19.62°N, 95.30°EKama — 19.53°N, 95.38°EKama — 19.52°N, 95.47°EJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WBorgloon — 50.80°N, 5.33°EBorgloon — 50.82°N, 5.46°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ELillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°ENagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EAksucay — 37.27°N, 30.78°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WShinzato — 26.18°N, 127.81°EOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°E

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The named rock units Cythara (Mangelia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 66 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cythara (Mangelia) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cythara (Mangelia) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,606 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Cythara (Mangelia), 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

73 references

Each of the 188 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. 61 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 Villiersiella attenuata (Montagu, 1803)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Cythara (Mangelia) 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Loven 1846)