Lyncina carneola
via iDigBio · CC BY-NC · via iDigBio. 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- Also called
- purple-mouthed cowryPBDB
- Sits inside
- LyncinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
22 occurrences of Lyncina carneola 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
22 occurrences- Miocene5%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene89%
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
- Waimanalo Formation4
- Naha Formation · Ryukyu Group1
- Abbas Formation1
- Alexandria Formation1
- Mariana Limestone Formation1
- Futuna Limestone Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Lyncina carneola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lyncina carneola and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lyncina carneola and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
408 taxa- Turbo (Turbo) petholatus6 sites
- Naria erosa5 sites
- Tibia5 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata4 sites
- Codakia tigerina4 sites
- Conus4 sites
- Conus arenatus4 sites
- Luria isabella4 sites
- Periglypta reticulata4 sites
- Spondylus4 sites
- Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus4 sites
- Tritia4 sites
- Acar plicata3 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata3 sites
- Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca3 sites
- Cardita variegata3 sites
- Cerithium3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Chlamys sanguinolenta3 sites
- Cypraea3 sites
- Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola3 sites
- Engina3 sites
- Erosaria turdus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Lyncina carneola, 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
11 references- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae)6
- Fossil mollusks of Oahu, Hawaii Islands4
- Recent and fossil marine Mollusca of Tongatabu3
- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, introduzione e parte I (gasteropodi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, introduction and part I (gastropods)]2
- Late Pleistocene gastropods from the raised reefal limestone of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: taxonomic and palaeoenvironmental implications1
- Pleistocene mollusc assemblage in the slightly raised atoll lagoon of Niau (Tuamotu, French Polynesia)1
- The Tertiary limestone of the southern coastal regions of Cape Province, South Africa1
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
- The geology of the Farsan Islands, Oizan and Kamaran Island, Red Sea. Part 2.- Molluscan palaeontology.1
- Mollusken aus posttertiären Schichten von Celebes1
Each of the 22 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 Lyncina carneola
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Lyncina carneola 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLyncina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)