Cavolinia mexicana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CavoliniaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cavoliniidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cavoliniidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cavoliniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
11 occurrences of Cavolinia mexicana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
11 occurrences- Miocene64%
- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene27%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Cavolinia mexicana 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.
Cavolinia mexicana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cavolinia mexicana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Styliola subula3 sites
- Atlanta2 sites
- Cerithiidae2 sites
- Creseis acicula2 sites
- Diacavolinia2 sites
- Diacria2 sites
- Lucinidae2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Polinices2 sites
- Serpulorbis2 sites
- Sincola (Sincola) nanniebellae2 sites
- Stigmaulax2 sites
- Telodiacria quadridentata2 sites
- Terebridae2 sites
- Triphoridae2 sites
- Alabina1 site
- Amusium papyraceum1 site
- Ancilla latifasciata1 site
- Antigona1 site
- Antillocyathus alatus1 site
- Aphera islacolonis1 site
- Argopecten eccentricus1 site
- Bathytoma hetzeli1 site
- Bifurcium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cavolinia mexicana, 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- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 20. Holoplanktonic Mollusks (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata)7
- Late Pleistocene pelagic gastropods of southern Taiwan: paleobiodiversity, first fossil records, and regional affinity1
- First record of Late Pleistocene holoplanktonic mollusks (Gastropoda, Euthecosomata, Pterotracheoidea) from northern Taiwan1
- Euthecosomatous gastropods (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) from Buton (SE Sulawesi, Indonesia), with notes on species from Viti Levu, Fiji; systematics, biostratigraphy1
- Marine mollusca from the "Ryukyu Limestone" of Kikai-Zima, Ryukyu Group1
Each of the 11 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 Cavolinia mexicana 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 Cavolinia mexicana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cavolinia mexicana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCavolinia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Collins 1934)