Sincola

Martinez-Perez, C. Saúl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- ColumbellidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
175 occurrences of Sincola 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
175 occurrences- Miocene59%
- Pliocene29%
- Pleistocene12%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
42 formations
- Cercado Formation32
- Rio Banano Formation · Limon Group19
- Gatun Formation17
- Springvale Formation9
- Tubará Formation7
- Armuelles Formation · Charco Azul Group6
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The named rock units Sincola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sincola and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sincola and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,846 taxa- Anadara18 sites
- Tellina (Eurytellina)12 sites
- Anadara (Sectiarca) inaequilateralis10 sites
- Anomia simplex10 sites
- Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula)10 sites
- Dentalium (Dentalium)10 sites
- Naticarius canrena10 sites
- Architectonica nobilis9 sites
- Cerithium9 sites
- Polinices stanislasmeunieri9 sites
- Saccella9 sites
- Semicassis reclusa9 sites
- Strioterebrum9 sites
- Argopecten8 sites
- Calyptraea centralis8 sites
- Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus8 sites
- Diodora8 sites
- Lirophora8 sites
- Niso8 sites
- Pitar (Lamelliconcha)8 sites
- Polystira8 sites
- Tellina (Moerella)8 sites
- Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia)8 sites
- Anachis (Costoanachis)7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Sincola, 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
30 references- Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living84
- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae)14
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama13
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad9
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel8
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions6
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae).5
- Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia3
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador3
- Miocene Mollusca from the Neighbourhood of Cucurrupi, Department of Chocó, Colombia3
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils3
- Quaternary invertebrate fossil assemblages from coastal marine ecosystems of Bahia de Panama, Panama2
Each of the 175 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. 18 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 content1

Picture of Sincola
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Martinez-Perez, C. Saúl
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Sincola 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.
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What may have been alongside itColumbellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson and Harbison 1953)