Cancellaria
Searched as Cancellaria (Cancellaria) epistomifera dariensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Cancellaria as the accepted name.
Cancellaria is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Edwardtbabinski at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5 · 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
- CancellariinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cancellaria on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cancellaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cancellaria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cancellaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
3,115 taxa- Turritella40 sites
- Tectonatica33 sites
- Strioterebrum28 sites
- Mitrella27 sites
- Nassarius24 sites
- Naticidae22 sites
- Uromitra22 sites
- Anadara21 sites
- Architectonica21 sites
- Terebra21 sites
- Babylonella20 sites
- Odostomia20 sites
- Chlamys19 sites
- Dentalium19 sites
- Euspira19 sites
- Gadila19 sites
- Inquisitor19 sites
- Nuculana19 sites
- Ostrea19 sites
- Roxania19 sites
- Circulus18 sites
- Cylichna18 sites
- Syrnola18 sites
- Trachycardium18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 352 sites for Cancellaria, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Cancellaria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Edwardtbabinski at English Wikipedia
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D scan
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
- Specimen
- Cancellaria cooperi
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cancellaria”
- 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 itCancellariinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1799