Ringicula trapaquara

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RingiculaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ringicula
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ringiculidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ringiculidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
43 occurrences of Ringicula trapaquara on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
43 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
7 formations
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group12
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group12
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Weches Formation · Caliborne Group4
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Stone City Formation3
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The named rock units Ringicula trapaquara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ringicula trapaquara and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ringicula trapaquara and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
692 taxa- Cadulus32 sites
- Ficus31 sites
- Ancilla staminea29 sites
- Turritella29 sites
- Athleta petrosa28 sites
- Buccitriton texanum25 sites
- Eosurcula moorei25 sites
- Microdrillia25 sites
- Michela trabeatoides24 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta24 sites
- Pyramidella24 sites
- Sinum24 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis23 sites
- Polinices23 sites
- Acteon22 sites
- Gegania antiquata21 sites
- Hastula21 sites
- Venericardia (Venericor) densata20 sites
- Cyclostremiscus19 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)19 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus19 sites
- Latirus moorei19 sites
- Levifusus19 sites
- Architectonica18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Ringicula trapaquara, 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- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals15
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)13
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda5
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas4
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs3
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
Each of the 43 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 Ringicula trapaquara
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ringicula trapaquara 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 itRingicula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.