Caecum glabrum
Caecum glabrum is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Caecidae.
Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 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
- CaecumPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Caecidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Caecidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Caecidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 774 ka.
7 occurrences of Caecum glabrum on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene14%
- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene71%
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
3 formations
- Lillo Formation1
- Norwich Crag Formation · Crag Group1
- Termofourà Formation1
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The named rock units Caecum glabrum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
399 taxa- Calyptraea chinensis5 sites
- Cardium5 sites
- Chrysallida5 sites
- Gibbula5 sites
- Hiatella arctica5 sites
- Odostomia5 sites
- Timoclea ovata5 sites
- Turritella5 sites
- Abra alba4 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis4 sites
- Astarte4 sites
- Diplodonta astartea4 sites
- Heteranomia squamula4 sites
- Mytilus edulis4 sites
- Natica4 sites
- Onoba semicostata4 sites
- Rissoa (Turboella) curticostata4 sites
- Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus4 sites
- Spisula4 sites
- Turbonilla internodula4 sites
- Venus4 sites
- Astarte montagui3 sites
- Cerastoderma edule3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Caecum glabrum, 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
3 references- Marine Molluscan Assemblages in the Early Pleistocene of Sidestrand, Bramerton and the Royal Society Borehole at Ludham, Norfolk5
- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement1
- Pliocene gastropod faunas from Kallo (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium) - Part 2. Caenogastropoda: Potamididae-Tornidae1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Caecum glabrum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hans Hillewaert
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCaecum through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Montagu 1803)