Capulus ungaricus

Capulus ungaricus, common name the bonnet shell, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Capulidae, the cap snails.

Capulus ungaricus

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CapulusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Capulidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Capulidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Capulidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 14 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Capulus ungaricus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

14 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

8 formations

Sabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°ESabbie di Asti — 43.32°N, 11.33°ELillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°ETielrode — 51.12°N, 4.18°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°WFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°E

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The named rock units Capulus ungaricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Capulus ungaricus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Capulus ungaricus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

826 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Capulus ungaricus, 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

Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Capulus ungaricus

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Capulus ungaricus · SMF:384687

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 itCapulus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)