Sphaerocypraea wegeneri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphaerocypraeaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeoidea
- 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 20.45 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
13 occurrences of Sphaerocypraea wegeneri 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
13 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Sphaerocypraea wegeneri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphaerocypraea wegeneri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sphaerocypraea wegeneri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
295 taxa- Clementia (Clementia) dariena8 sites
- Turritella cocoditana8 sites
- Agriopoma (Pitarella) paraguanensis7 sites
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis nobilis7 sites
- Cymatophos7 sites
- Chione (Lirophora) quirosensis6 sites
- Conus molis6 sites
- Cyclinella cyclica6 sites
- Melongena consors6 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis6 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) inutilis5 sites
- Conus5 sites
- Conus talis5 sites
- Knefastia5 sites
- Latirus5 sites
- Oliva cylindrica5 sites
- Polystira barretti5 sites
- Prunum quirosense5 sites
- Strioterebrum ulloa5 sites
- Terebra (Paraterebra) inaequalis5 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) tirantensis4 sites
- Bursa rugosa4 sites
- Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana4 sites
- Cymatophos paraguanensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Sphaerocypraea wegeneri, 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- Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela7
- Gasteropodos y un cefalopodo de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan2
- Onshore marine Cenozoic along southwest Pacific coast of Mexico1
- The Cantaure Formation of the Paraguaná Peninsula1
- Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae)1
- Description, correlation, and paleoecology of Tertiary Cipero Marl, Trinidad, BWI1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Sphaerocypraea wegeneri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sphaerocypraea wegeneri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSphaerocypraea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schilder 1939)