Hyalogyrinidae

The Hyalogyrinidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the informal group Lower Heterobranchia.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ValvatoideaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 239 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–8.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.9–418 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250.8 Mya11.63 Mya256 Mya418 ka

7 occurrences of Hyalogyrinidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

7 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

4 formations

Humptulips — 47.32°N, 123.57°WHumptulips — 47.25°N, 123.82°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WCeratite Marls — 32.66°N, 71.80°EMakah — 48.32°N, 124.45°W

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The named rock units Hyalogyrinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyalogyrinidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Hyalogyrinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hyalogyrinidae, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 content0

No picture of Hyalogyrinidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hyalogyrinidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hyalogyrinidae 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 itValvatoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Warén and Bouchet 1993