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

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZidoninaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
11 occurrences of Pachycymbiola on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Monte Leon Fm Formation2
- Chenque Formation2
- Navidad Formation2
- Gran Bajo del Gualicho Formation2
- Entrerriense Formation1
- San Julian Formation1
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The named rock units Pachycymbiola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pachycymbiola and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pachycymbiola and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
192 taxa- Ameghinomya argentina3 sites
- Struthiolarella ameghinoi3 sites
- Ataxocerithium2 sites
- Austroimbricaria2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Crepidula2 sites
- Glycymeris camaronesia2 sites
- Iheringinucula2 sites
- Miomelon gracilis2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Penion2 sites
- Polynices consimilis2 sites
- Polynices ortmanni2 sites
- Polystira2 sites
- Torcula2 sites
- Trophon2 sites
- Turritella ambulacrum2 sites
- Valdesia2 sites
- ? Tricosirius patagonica1 site
- Acteocina1 site
- Adelomelon1 site
- Adelomelon posei1 site
- Ameghinomya darwini1 site
- Ameghinomya meridionalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pachycymbiola, 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
5 references- Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis5
- Estratigrafía y paleontología del Cenozoico marino del Gran Bajo y Salinas del Gualicho, Argentina y descripción de 17 especies nuevas2
- Molluscos bivalvos y gastrópodos del Mioceno marino de Isla Stokes, sur de Chile2
- The fossil invertebrate marine fauna of the Gaiman Formation (Lower Miocene) at Bryn Gwyn (Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina)1
- 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 11 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 Pachycymbiola
- 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 Pachycymbiola 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itZidoninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ihering 1907)