Gyrineum bituberculare
Gyrineum bituberculare is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.

Lamarck, 1816 · CC0 · 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
- GyrineumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Gyrineum bituberculare 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
10 occurrences- Miocene60%
- Pliocene30%
- Pleistocene10%
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
6 formations
- Chasra Formation2
- Quilon Limestone Formation1
- Mekran Formation1
- Futuna Limestone Formation1
- Tuatua Limestone Formation1
- Upper Kalibeng Formation1
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The named rock units Gyrineum bituberculare 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.
Gyrineum bituberculare and its relatives
MioceneWhere Gyrineum bituberculare and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
293 taxa- Agaronia pupa2 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina) dentata2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Distorsio decipiens2 sites
- Gemmula gajensis2 sites
- Hemipolygona2 sites
- Lyria (Harpeola) jugosa2 sites
- Meretrix2 sites
- Mitra2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Natica obscura2 sites
- Persististrombus depertitus2 sites
- Placuna2 sites
- Pugilina eulactea2 sites
- Semicassis bisulcata2 sites
- Turbinella affinis2 sites
- Turbo (Turbo) petholatus2 sites
- Turricula spuria2 sites
- Varicospira subrimosa2 sites
- Acar plicata1 site
- Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)1 site
- Aesopus1 site
- Aliculastrum protocylindrica1 site
- Amusium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gyrineum bituberculare, 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
8 references- Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific2
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae)2
- Types of Cenozoic Mollusca from Java in the Martin Collection of Naturalis1
- Age refinement of the Sonde molluscan fauna, East Java, Indonesia1
- The Miocene Mollusca from Quilon, Kerala (India)1
- On the ages of certain Upper Tertiary beds of Peninsula India and Ceylon1
- Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata1
- Mollusken aus posttertiären Schichten von Celebes1
Each of the 10 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 Gyrineum bituberculare
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Lamarck, 1816
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gyrineum bituberculare 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 itGyrineum through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1816)