Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana

Not Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana. This is Cancellaria dalliana (Anderson, 1905), a relative — both are Cancellariidae.
via GBIF · CC BY 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
- EucliaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana 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
22 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
6 formations
- Vaqueros Formation10
- Olcese Formation4
- Round Mountain Formation2
- Monterey Formation1
- Topanga Canyon Formation · Topanga Group1
- Round Mountain Silt Formation1
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The named rock units Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
351 taxa- Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis9 sites
- Turritella ocoyana9 sites
- Balanus8 sites
- Calyptraea filosa8 sites
- Antillophos posunculensis7 sites
- Cancellaria (Euclia) condoni7 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis7 sites
- Crepidula rostralis7 sites
- Bruclarkia barkeriana6 sites
- Clementia conradiana6 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense6 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia6 sites
- Panopea generosa6 sites
- Turricula piercei6 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis5 sites
- Calyptraea costellata5 sites
- Cancellaria simplex5 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni5 sites
- Crassostrea vaquerosensis5 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus5 sites
- Crepidula praerupta5 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta5 sites
- Lyropecten miguelensis5 sites
- Mactromeris sectoris5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana, 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- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology10
- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California6
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington3
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Miocene Saddleback Valley Limestone, Orange County, Southern California1
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California1
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California1
Each of the 22 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 content1

Picture of Cancellaria dalliana (Anderson, 1905)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1905)