Cancellaria oregonensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CancellariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.
19 occurrences of Cancellaria oregonensis 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
19 occurrences- Oligocene11%
- Miocene63%
- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene11%
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
8 formations
- Astoria Formation7
- Clallam Formation2
- Fernando Formation2
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation2
- Jewett Formation1
- Empire Formation1
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The named rock units Cancellaria oregonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cancellaria oregonensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cancellaria oregonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
821 taxa- Glossaulax reclusiana6 sites
- Atrimitra idae4 sites
- Barbarofusus barbarensis4 sites
- Caesia perpinguis4 sites
- Californiconus californicus4 sites
- Chama arcana4 sites
- Crawfordina crawfordiana4 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum4 sites
- Fusitriton oregonensis4 sites
- Glycymeris septentrionalis4 sites
- Hima cooperi4 sites
- Hima insculpta4 sites
- Hirtoscala hindsii4 sites
- Lirobittium rugatum4 sites
- Megasurcula carpenteriana4 sites
- Mitrella gausapata4 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa4 sites
- Nutricola tantilla4 sites
- Parvilucina tenuisculpta4 sites
- Pododesmus (Monia) macrochisma4 sites
- Saccella taphria4 sites
- Saxidomus nuttalli4 sites
- Semele (Semele) decisa4 sites
- Solen sicarius4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cancellaria oregonensis, 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
11 references- Miocene marine mollusks from the Astoria Formation in Oregon7
- Molluscan paleontology of the lower Miocene Clallam Formation, northwestern Washington2
- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California2
- Raschleneniye oligotsen-nizhnemiotsenovykh tolshch vostochnoy Kamchatki (zaliv Korfa). Subdivision of Oligocene-lower Miocene layers of eastern Kamchatka, Gulf of Korfa1
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California1
- An Upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California1
- Geology and Paleontology of a Portion of Los Angeles, California1
- The San Lorenzo series of Middle California. a stratigraphic and paleontologic study of the San Lorenzo Oligocene series of the general region of Mount Diablo, California1
- Fauna of the Fernando of Los Angeles1
- The marine Tertiary stratigraphy of the North Pacific coast of America1
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California1
Each of the 19 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 oregonensis
- 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 Cancellaria oregonensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itCancellaria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1865)