Caricella pyruloides

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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 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
24 occurrences of Caricella pyruloides 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
24 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
7 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group12
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Kosciusko Formation · Claiborne Group2
- McBean Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Santee Limestone Formation1
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group1
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The named rock units Caricella pyruloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Caricella pyruloides and its relatives
EoceneWhere Caricella pyruloides and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
665 taxa- Agaronia alabamensis14 sites
- Ancilla staminea13 sites
- Turritella13 sites
- Athleta petrosa12 sites
- Bullata semen12 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata12 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta12 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda12 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta11 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus11 sites
- Cyclostremiscus11 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina11 sites
- Ficus11 sites
- Glycymeris staminea11 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata11 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa11 sites
- Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata11 sites
- Crepidula lirata10 sites
- Bathytormus protextus9 sites
- Buccitriton sagenum9 sites
- Caestocorbula murchisonii9 sites
- Callista9 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) aequorea9 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Caricella pyruloides, 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 hyperthermals5
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region5
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama4
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area3
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda2
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina2
- New molluscan faunas from the Eocene of South Carolina1
Each of the 24 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 pyruloides
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No 3D scan of Caricella pyruloides was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 1832