Spirocrypta pileum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpirocryptaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calyptraeoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calyptraeoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Calyptraeoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
30 occurrences of Spirocrypta pileum 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
30 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
15 formations
- Tejon Formation7
- Cowlitz Formation5
- Coaledo Formation3
- Snatolskaya Formation2
- Lincoln Creek Formation2
- Kovachinskaya Formation1
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The named rock units Spirocrypta pileum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spirocrypta pileum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Spirocrypta pileum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
610 taxa- Calyptraea diegoana19 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis12 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii10 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii10 sites
- Crassatella uvasana8 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata8 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa8 sites
- Priscoficus cowlitzensis8 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus8 sites
- Sinum obliquum8 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi7 sites
- Dentalium stramineum7 sites
- Ficopsis remondii7 sites
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana7 sites
- Pitar uvasana7 sites
- Polinices hornii7 sites
- Turritella uvasana7 sites
- Amaurellina moragai6 sites
- Conus hornii6 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni6 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana6 sites
- Glycymeris6 sites
- Strepsidura ficus6 sites
- Bonellitia (Admetula) paucivaricata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Spirocrypta pileum, 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
20 references- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington4
- Eocene gastropods of western Kamchatka - implications for high-latitude north Pacific biostratigraphy and biogeography3
- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon3
- Paleoecological anlaysis of molluscan assemblages from the Middle Eocene Cowlitz Formation, southwestern Washington2
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California2
- Fauna and stratigraphic relations of the Tejon Eocene at the type locality in Kern County, California2
- Cenozoic Marine Formations of Washington and Oregon: an annotated catalogue1
- Cretaceous trichotropid gastropods from the Pacific slope of North America: Possible pathways to calyptraeid morphology1
- Biotic response to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Gastropod assemblages in the High-Latitude North Pacific1
- Marine fauna of the middle Eocene Tukwila Formation, King County1
- Macropaleontology of Eocene marine rocks, upper Sespe Creek area, Ventura County, southern California1
- A Middle Eocene marine molluscan assemblage form the usually nonmarine Friars Formation, San Diego County, California1
Each of the 30 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. 8 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 Spirocrypta pileum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Spirocrypta pileum 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 itSpirocrypta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)