Odontocymbiola
Odontocymbiola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cymbiinae of the family Volutidae.

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Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 129 ka.
5 occurrences of Odontocymbiola on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene60%
- Pleistocene40%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Odontocymbiola 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.
Odontocymbiola and its relatives
MioceneWhere Odontocymbiola and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Bryozoa2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Calyptraea2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Chaceon peruvianus2 sites
- Crassostrea hatcheri2 sites
- Cucullaea alta2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Echinoidea2 sites
- Mactra patagonica2 sites
- Miomelon gracilis2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Retrotapes2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Ameghinomya1 site
- Anomiidae1 site
- Arca (Arca) patagonica1 site
- Ataxocerithium1 site
- Austroimbricaria quemadensis1 site
- Austrotoma1 site
- Bulbus1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Cerithiopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Odontocymbiola, 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
3 references- Mass mortality of fossil decapods within the Monte Leon Formation (early Miocene), southern Argentina: victims of Andean Volcanism?2
- Paleoenvrionments and paleoclimates of the Quaternary molluscan faunas from the coastal area of Bahía Vera-Camarones (Chubut, Patagonia)2
- New Species of Mollusca from the Entrerriense Formation (Upper Miocene) of Chubut Province, Argentina and species not previously reported from this formation. Part 2 - Gastropoda1
Each of the 5 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 Odontocymbiola
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Odontocymbiola 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.
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 itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clench and Turner 1964