Caricella polita
No picture of Caricella polita was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 polita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 polita 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
2 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group7
- Yazoo Clay Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Caricella polita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Caricella polita and its relatives
EoceneWhere Caricella polita and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
297 taxa- Caestocorbula wailesiana5 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta5 sites
- Capulus americanus5 sites
- Architectonica acuta4 sites
- Architectonica bellastriata4 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus4 sites
- Bittium koeneni4 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus4 sites
- Clavilithes4 sites
- Conus sauridens4 sites
- Corbula densata4 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis4 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata4 sites
- Kapalmerella arenicola4 sites
- Lapparia dumosa4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis4 sites
- Polinices weisbordi4 sites
- Sinistrella americana4 sites
- Athleta symmetricus3 sites
- Barbatia (Acar) aspera3 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) cuculloides3 sites
- Cadulus (Polyschides) margarita3 sites
- Caricella howei3 sites
- Caricella subangulata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Caricella polita, 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- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Observations on the Eocene deposit of Jackson, Mississippi, with descriptions of thirty-four new species of shells and corals1
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 polita was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 polita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caricella polita 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. Conrad 1854