Eocernina hannibali

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Cernina (Eocernina)PBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
105 occurrences of Eocernina hannibali 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
105 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
13 formations
- Llajas Formation55
- Juncal Formation17
- Maniobra Formation6
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group6
- Matilija Formation4
- Flournoy Formation · Umpqua Group3
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The named rock units Eocernina hannibali has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eocernina hannibali and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eocernina hannibali and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
396 taxa- Pachycrommium clarki43 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla37 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus29 sites
- Turritella buwaldana22 sites
- Ficopsis remondii21 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum20 sites
- Phalium (Semicassis) tuberculiformis20 sites
- Turritella andersoni lawsoni20 sites
- Lyria andersoni19 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata18 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata16 sites
- Lyrischapa lajollaensis16 sites
- Turritella uvasana applinae16 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana15 sites
- Clavilithes tabulatus15 sites
- Crassatella uvasana15 sites
- Surculites mathewsonii15 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni14 sites
- Dentalium stentor14 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii14 sites
- Tejonia moragai13 sites
- Trochocyathus striatus13 sites
- Turritella andersoni13 sites
- Conus hornii umpquaensis11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Eocernina hannibali, 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
19 references- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California48
- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California17
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California7
- Molluscan Paleontology of the Lower Eocene Maniobra Formation, Orocopia Mountains, Southern California6
- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon6
- Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California3
- Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico2
- A new species of Architectonica from the Santa Susana Mountains, Ventura County, California2
- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California2
- Geology and oil resources of a part of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California2
- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington2
- Eocene megapaleontology, stratigraphy, and depositional environments, Elsmere Canyon, Los Angeles County, California1
Each of the 105 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. 7 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 Eocernina hannibali
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Eocernina hannibali 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCernina (Eocernina) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dickerson 1914)