Cinulia
Searched as Cinulia argentina. The Paleobiology Database treats Cinulia as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RingiculidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ringiculidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ringiculidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ringiculidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cinulia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cinulia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cinulia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cinulia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
681 taxa- Ostrea6 sites
- Cominella praecursor4 sites
- Dentalium4 sites
- Panopea4 sites
- Pecten4 sites
- Anomia3 sites
- Australoneilo gracilis3 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Cryptorhytis3 sites
- Cucullaea antarctica3 sites
- Echinoidea3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Haumurigonia windhauseniana3 sites
- Lima3 sites
- Linearis3 sites
- Lucina3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Nucula (Leionucula) suboblonga3 sites
- Pacitrigonia patagonica3 sites
- Pleurotomaria3 sites
- Plicatula3 sites
- Pseudolimea3 sites
- Serpula3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Cinulia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Cinulia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cinulia 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.
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What may have been alongside itRingiculidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1847