Cancellaria petiti

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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 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
15 occurrences of Cancellaria petiti on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
15 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
5 formations
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group6
- Nancy Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group3
- Shark Hole Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group3
- Valiente Formation · Bocas del Toro Group2
- Tuatua Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Cancellaria petiti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cancellaria petiti and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cancellaria petiti and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Amarophos1 site
- Amusium1 site
- Anadara (Rasia)1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Antillophos (Antillophos)1 site
- Antropora1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Argopecten1 site
- Borsonella1 site
- Caryocorbula1 site
- Celleporaria1 site
- Chama1 site
- Cigclisula1 site
- Columbellopsis1 site
- Conus1 site
- Crucibulum (Crucibulum)1 site
- Cupuladria biporosa1 site
- Cupuladria canariensis1 site
- Discoporella1 site
- Eburna1 site
- Echinophoria hadra1 site
- Macrocallista (Megapitaria)1 site
- Marginella1 site
- Microporella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cancellaria petiti, 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
4 references- The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Neogene of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama, with the description of seven new species10
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Volutidae through Terebridae)1
Each of the 15 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 petiti
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cancellaria petiti was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson 1967)