Chrysallida pygmaea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChrysallidaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
29 occurrences of Chrysallida pygmaea 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
29 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Chrysallida pygmaea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chrysallida pygmaea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Chrysallida pygmaea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
539 taxa- Astarte (Astarte) radiata26 sites
- Ringicula buccinea26 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella26 sites
- Limopsis25 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita25 sites
- Saccella westendorpi25 sites
- Spiroplectammina carinata25 sites
- Xenophora deshayesi25 sites
- Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima25 sites
- Yoldiella25 sites
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)24 sites
- Bittium spina24 sites
- Gemmula (Gemmula)24 sites
- Lentigodentalium24 sites
- Lyrotyphis24 sites
- Pyrgolampros24 sites
- Reussirella24 sites
- Turritella24 sites
- Dentalina23 sites
- Dentalina konincki23 sites
- Globulina gibba23 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima23 sites
- Lenticulina (Lenticulina)23 sites
- Limopsis (Pectunculina) lamellata23 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Chrysallida pygmaea, 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
4 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae25
- The mollusc fauna of the Stemerdink Bed (Miocene, Reinbekian) from outcrops in the Slinge brook at Winterswijk-Brinkheurne (The Netherlands, province of Gelderland)2
- Paleobiology from Museum collections: comparing historical and novel data on Upper Miocene molluscs of the Livorno Hills1
- Stratigraphic interpretation of the Neogene marine-continental record in the Maaseik well (49W0220) in the Roer Valley Graben, NE Belgium1
Each of the 29 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Chrysallida pygmaea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chrysallida pygmaea 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 itChrysallida through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Grateloup 1838)