Cancelrana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CancellariinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya.
5 occurrences of Cancelrana on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 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
3 formations
- Agatdal Formation2
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group1
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The named rock units Cancelrana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cancelrana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cancelrana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
293 taxa- Crepidula3 sites
- Ficus3 sites
- Polinices3 sites
- Siphonalia3 sites
- Acteocina2 sites
- Amaurellina2 sites
- Ancillarina2 sites
- Ataphrus2 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)2 sites
- Boltenella2 sites
- Bonellitia2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Calyptraea2 sites
- Cerithiella2 sites
- Cerithiopsis2 sites
- Circulus2 sites
- Clinura2 sites
- Cominella2 sites
- Coptochetus2 sites
- Coptostoma2 sites
- Cossmannia2 sites
- Cylichna2 sites
- Drepanocheilus2 sites
- Ellipsoscapha2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cancelrana, 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
3 references- Paleocene gastropods from Nûgssuaq, West Greenland2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
Each of the 5 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 Cancelrana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cancelrana 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 itCancellariinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1937