Ringicula

Ringicula is a genus of small deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs belonging to the family Ringiculidae. Members of the species have a solid shell. The shell has anterior notch and a thick lip.

Ringicula

Yasunori Kano, Bastian Brenzinger, Alexander Nützel, Nerida G. Wilson & Michael Schrödl · CC BY 4.0 · 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
RingiculidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ringiculidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ringiculidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 161 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 626 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 626 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 626 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 127 of 626 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 64 of 626 occurrencesEocene — about 142 of 626 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 45 of 626 occurrencesMiocene — about 158 of 626 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 61 of 626 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 626 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–135 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences135–129 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 10 occurrences79–73 Mya — about 11 occurrences73–67 Mya — about 72 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 45 occurrences62–56 Mya — about 39 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 24 occurrences51–45 Mya — about 31 occurrences45–39 Mya — about 55 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 35 occurrences34–28 Mya — about 37 occurrences28–22 Mya — about 8 occurrences22–17 Mya — about 35 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 78 occurrences11–5.6 Mya — about 43 occurrences5.6–0 Mya — about 89 occurrences161.5 Mya11.7 ka169 Mya0 Mya

626 occurrences of Ringicula 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

626 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

128 formations

Cook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.49°N, 93.47°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 31.97°N, 89.43°WByram — 32.40°N, 90.87°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.15°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 34.93°N, 88.52°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.26°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WCorsicana Marl — 30.20°N, 97.62°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WWeches — 31.76°N, 93.09°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.84°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.38°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.93°WChiwapa — 34.19°N, 88.98°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.74°WSanta Susana — 34.26°N, 118.70°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.79°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.10°N, 97.30°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 33.73°N, 96.59°WWoodbine — 33.68°N, 96.85°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WNyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ELondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.08°N, 1.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°W

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The named rock units Ringicula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 104 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 137 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ringicula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ringicula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,678 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 437 sites for Ringicula, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

146 references

Each of the 626 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. 134 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Ringicula

Credit
Yasunori Kano, Bastian Brenzinger, Alexander Nützel, Nerida G. Wilson & Michael Schrödl
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deshayes 1838