Cancellariidae

Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed.

Cancellariidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CancellarioideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 2654 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 78 of 2654 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 107 of 2654 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 538 of 2654 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 86 of 2654 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1275 of 2654 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 406 of 2654 occurrencesPleistocene — about 160 of 2654 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 7 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 7 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 9 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 27 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 29 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 33 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 50 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 26 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 31 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 33 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 59 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 61 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 293 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 45 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 28 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 27 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 27 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 67 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 144 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 269 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 321 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 349 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 344 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 357 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

2,654 occurrences of Cancellariidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

2,654 occurrences

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

328 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WCook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 97.22°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 30.36°N, 96.82°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.35°N, 70.70°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.49°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.49°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.65°N, 96.32°WWeches — 29.80°N, 97.65°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°WOlcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WTubará — 10.45°N, 75.33°WTubará — 10.75°N, 74.98°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.41°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.89°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.02°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WKeasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 46.58°N, 123.61°WKeasey — 45.72°N, 123.20°WKeasey — 45.74°N, 123.27°WKeasey — 46.00°N, 123.26°WKeasey — 45.88°N, 123.26°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WTamiami — 26.72°N, 81.61°WTamiami — 26.72°N, 81.71°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 28.29°N, 81.41°WTamiami — 26.01°N, 81.13°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 28.23°N, 81.02°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 18.47°N, 71.05°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°ECantaure — 11.90°N, 69.85°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°W

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The named rock units Cancellariidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 304 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 282 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cancellariidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cancellariidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,085 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 890 sites for Cancellariidae, 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

358 references

Each of the 2,654 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. 346 further references are not listed. 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 Cancellariidae

Credit
Shellnut
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cancellariidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCancellarioidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1853