Cingula

Cingula is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.

Cingula

Jymm · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RissoinaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Rissoidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rissoidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Rissoidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 42 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 42 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene — about 23 of 42 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Cingula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

42 occurrences

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

10 formations

Dry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ENorwich Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°EMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EBrejning Clay — 56.17°N, 9.75°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EPalau Limestone — 7.37°N, 134.58°E

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The named rock units Cingula 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.

Cingula and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cingula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

685 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cingula, 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

18 references

Each of the 42 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Cingula

Credit
Jymm
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRissoinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1818