Cepatia cepacea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CepatiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
22 occurrences of Cepatia cepacea 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
22 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
- Kohat Formation4
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- Kirkkavak Formation1
- Shekhan Formation1
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The named rock units Cepatia cepacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cepatia cepacea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cepatia cepacea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
914 taxa- Seraphs8 sites
- Haustator imbricataria7 sites
- Sigmesalia fasciata7 sites
- Ampullaria sigaretina6 sites
- Ampullina6 sites
- Crassatella6 sites
- Cypraedia elegans6 sites
- Diastoma costellatum6 sites
- Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa6 sites
- Pholadomya puschi6 sites
- Rimella fissurella6 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta5 sites
- Chama calcarata5 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina5 sites
- Gigantostrea gigantica5 sites
- Hipponix5 sites
- Potamides5 sites
- Spondylus5 sites
- Tibia (Hippochrenes) ampla5 sites
- Xenophora5 sites
- Arca biangula4 sites
- Architectonica4 sites
- Batillaria4 sites
- Benoistia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Cepatia cepacea, 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
10 references- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]5
- A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District5
- Karagyuleva, 19643
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)2
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique2
- Molluscs (Mollusca: Gastropoda, Bivalvia) from The Upper Eocene of Perunika Village (East Rhodopes, Bulgaria) – Preliminary Results1
- The Ampullinid Gastropod Globularia (Swainson 1840) from the late Thanetian-early Ilerdian Kirkkavak formation (Polatli-Ankara) of the Tethyan realm1
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex1
- Geologie, Paläontologie und Palökologie der südostbayerischen unter-priabonen (Ober-Eozän) Riffkalkvorkommen bei Hallthurm (Nördliche Kalkalpen) und der Kirchbergs bei Neubeuern (Helvetikum)1
- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris1
Each of the 22 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 Cepatia cepacea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cepatia cepacea 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 itCepatia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1804)