Caricella howei
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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 most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Caricella howei 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
9 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group6
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group2
- Yazoo Clay Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Caricella howei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Caricella howei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Caricella howei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
241 taxa- Bittium koeneni4 sites
- Caestocorbula wailesiana4 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta4 sites
- Eucheilodon4 sites
- Kapalmerella arenicola4 sites
- Microdrillia4 sites
- Polinices weisbordi4 sites
- Sinistrella americana4 sites
- Architectonica (Granosolarium) meekana3 sites
- Architectonica bellastriata3 sites
- Caricella polita3 sites
- Corbula densata3 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis3 sites
- Nemocardium nicolletti3 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta3 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis3 sites
- Syrnola meyeri3 sites
- Abderospira2 sites
- Acrilla unilineata2 sites
- Acteon annectens2 sites
- Architectonica (Architectonica)2 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum2 sites
- Architectonica acuta2 sites
- Athleta symmetricus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Caricella howei, 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
5 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda4
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Timing of latest Eocene molluscan extinction patterns in Mississippi1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
- The Mollusca of the Mississippi Embayment (Sabine River to the Alabama River). Pt. II. Univalves and index1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Caricella howei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Caricella howei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caricella howei 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 itCaricella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris and Palmer 1947