Colposigma capitanea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ColposigmaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
16 occurrences of Colposigma capitanea 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
16 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Colposigma capitanea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Colposigma capitanea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Colposigma capitanea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Polinices (Polinices) subtenuis15 sites
- Saxolucina sharmani13 sites
- Struthiolarella variabilis8 sites
- Sudonassarius antarctohimaleos7 sites
- Cyclorismina marwicki6 sites
- Eurhomalea newtoni6 sites
- Mactra irizari6 sites
- Zemacies finlayi6 sites
- Antarctodarwinella nordenskjoldi5 sites
- Colposigma euthenia5 sites
- Hiatella tenuis5 sites
- Modiolus thomsoni5 sites
- Cucullaea raea4 sites
- Ostrea seymourensis4 sites
- Zegalerus coniculus4 sites
- Austroficopsis wimani3 sites
- Eobuccinella brucei3 sites
- Eurhomalea antarctica3 sites
- Eurhomalea florentinoi3 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) nucleoides3 sites
- Nucula (Leionucula) nova3 sites
- Periploma topei3 sites
- Struthioptera camachoi3 sites
- Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) aersispira3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Colposigma capitanea, 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 16 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Colposigma capitanea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Colposigma capitanea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Colposigma capitanea 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 itColposigma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992