Caricella demissa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaricellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
21 occurrences of Caricella demissa on record. 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
21 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
4 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group8
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group4
- Byram Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Caricella demissa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
521 taxa- Gemmula (Coronia)8 sites
- Pleurofusia8 sites
- Sinum8 sites
- Turritella8 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta7 sites
- Conus sauridens7 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta7 sites
- Scobinella7 sites
- Tropisurcula7 sites
- Turricula7 sites
- Athleta petrosa6 sites
- Buccitriton texanum6 sites
- Cadulus6 sites
- Ficus6 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus6 sites
- Lapparia6 sites
- Levifusus6 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis6 sites
- Microdrillia6 sites
- Pitar6 sites
- Terebra6 sites
- Venericardia6 sites
- Acteon5 sites
- Ancilla staminea5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Caricella demissa, 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
8 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals8
- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi4
- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi3
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda2
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Hacobjan, 19741
- Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix1
Each of the 21 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 Caricella demissa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Caricella demissa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1848