Cancellaria rotunda

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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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
10 occurrences of Cancellaria rotunda 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
10 occurrences- Miocene40%
- Pliocene30%
- Pleistocene30%
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
- Astoria Formation3
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group2
- Caloosahatchee Formation2
- Clallam Formation1
- Duplin Formation1
- Waccamaw Formation1
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The named rock units Cancellaria rotunda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cancellaria rotunda and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cancellaria rotunda and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Akleistostoma hughesi2 sites
- Astarte concentrica2 sites
- Carolinapecten eboreus2 sites
- Chione cribraria2 sites
- Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta2 sites
- Sconsia hodgii2 sites
- "Drillia" simpsoni cingulata1 site
- Abra aequalis1 site
- Acantholabia sarasotaensis1 site
- Aesopus1 site
- Akleistostoma carolinensis1 site
- Akleistostoma floridana1 site
- Akleistostoma transitoria1 site
- Aligena1 site
- Americardia media1 site
- Amusium mortoni1 site
- Anachis (Costoanachis) avara amydra1 site
- Anachis (Thiarinella) styliola obsoleta1 site
- Anadara (Caloosarca) notoflorida1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa1 site
- Anadara callicestosa wilsoni1 site
- Anadara magnoliana1 site
- Apicula gladeensis1 site
- Argopecten1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cancellaria rotunda, 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- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions3
- Miocene marine mollusks from the Astoria Formation in Oregon3
- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Molluscan paleontology of the lower Miocene Clallam Formation, northwestern Washington1
- Some Neogene Mollusca from Florida and the Carolinas1
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda1
Each of the 10 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 rotunda
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- iDigBio
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cancellaria rotunda 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1892)