Euclia

Euclia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Euclia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CancellariinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 268 occurrencesMiocene — about 193 of 268 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 54 of 268 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 21 of 268 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 10 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 20 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 20 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 12 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 13 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 14 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 14 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 14 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 12 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 18 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 19 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

268 occurrences of Euclia 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

268 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

38 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.29°N, 79.92°WOlcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.89°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.49°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.49°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.09°N, 119.04°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.24°N, 120.09°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.41°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.80°N, 75.02°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 121.05°WPancho Rico — 36.19°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 36.00°N, 120.75°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 121.24°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.86°N, 120.46°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WRound Mountain — 35.43°N, 118.80°WRound Mountain — 35.45°N, 118.85°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WAngostura — 1.09°N, 78.99°WAngostura — 0.80°N, 78.93°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WJacalitos — 36.08°N, 120.48°WJacalitos — 36.07°N, 120.45°WJacalitos — 35.95°N, 120.17°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.63°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°W

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The named rock units Euclia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euclia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Euclia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,081 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 122 sites for Euclia, 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

49 references

Each of the 268 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. 37 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 Euclia

Credit
Shellnut
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euclia 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.

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 itCancellariinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1854)