Diodora cayenensis

Diodora cayenensis, the Cayenne keyhole limpet, is a species of small to medium-sized sea snail or limpet, a western Atlantic marine prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.

Diodora cayenensis

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
DiodoraPBDB
Diet
grazer, carnivorePBDB, for Diodora
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Diodora
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Diodora
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 45 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 45 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 30 of 45 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 45 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

45 occurrences of Diodora cayenensis 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

45 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

18 formations

Mare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WSpencer's Point — 32.31°N, 64.73°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WTalparo — 10.63°N, 61.28°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WAgueguexquite — 17.58°N, 95.08°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°W

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The named rock units Diodora cayenensis 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.

Diodora cayenensis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Diodora cayenensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Diodora cayenensis, 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

23 references

Each of the 45 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. 11 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 Diodora cayenensis

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H. Zell
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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Diodora cayenensis 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

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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. (Lamarck 1822)