Clanculus (Clanculus)

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClanculusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.
11 occurrences of Clanculus (Clanculus) 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
11 occurrences- Miocene27%
- Pliocene18%
- Pleistocene55%
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
- Ndalithoni Limestone Formation2
- Gelingseh Formation1
- Lower Gelingseh Formation1
- Lower Menkrawit Formation1
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The named rock units Clanculus (Clanculus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Clanculus (Clanculus) and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Clanculus (Clanculus) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Chicoreus3 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Strombus2 sites
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora pharaonis1 site
- Aloidis scaphoides1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Arca navicularis1 site
- Asaphis deflorata1 site
- Asaphis violascens1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brissopsis1 site
- Caelatura1 site
- Callista1 site
- Canarium1 site
- Canarium mutabile1 site
- Cerithium (Cerithium) nodulosum1 site
- Cerithium caeruleum1 site
- Chama asperella1 site
- Chama brassica1 site
- Chama lazarus1 site
- Chama macerophylla1 site
- Chama pacifica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Clanculus (Clanculus), 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
9 references- Late Pleistocene gastropods from the raised reefal limestone of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: taxonomic and palaeoenvironmental implications2
- Skwarko, 19942
- Biofacies and diagenetic alterations of the Pleistocene coral reefs, northwest Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia1
- Facies pattern and molluscan fauna of the Late Pleistocene raised coral reef of Rabigh area, Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia1
- Paleontology and depositional environments of the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt1
- Molluscan fauna of the Lower Gelingseh Beds s. str. , Sangkulirang area, Kalimantan timur (East Borneo)1
- Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands1
- Geology of Lau, Fiji1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
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 content1

Picture of Clanculus (Clanculus)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- whittie
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Clanculus (Clanculus) 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Monfort 1810