Cominella eocenica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CominellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
11 occurrences of Cominella eocenica 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
- Cowlitz Formation4
- Flournoy Formation · Umpqua Group3
- Lincoln Creek Formation2
- Tukwila Formation · Puget Group1
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The named rock units Cominella eocenica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cominella eocenica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cominella eocenica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
335 taxa- Calyptraea diegoana8 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii6 sites
- Tivelina vaderensis6 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa5 sites
- Spirocrypta pileum5 sites
- Acutostrea idriaensis4 sites
- Acutostrea idriaensis fettkei4 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cooperi4 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis4 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi4 sites
- Cerithiopsis washingtoniana4 sites
- Mitra washingtoniana4 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis4 sites
- Priscoficus cowlitzensis4 sites
- Siphonalia (Nassicola) bicarinata4 sites
- Siphonalia (Nassicola) sopenahensis4 sites
- Thracia dilleri4 sites
- Turritella uvasana olequahensis4 sites
- Venericardia (Pacificor) clarki4 sites
- Caryocorbula parilis3 sites
- Colwellia3 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni3 sites
- Dentalium stramineum3 sites
- Exilia dickersoni3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cominella eocenica, 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
7 references- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon3
- Paleoecological anlaysis of molluscan assemblages from the Middle Eocene Cowlitz Formation, southwestern Washington2
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington2
- Marine fauna of the middle Eocene Tukwila Formation, King County1
- The Gries Ranch Fauna (Oligocene) of Western Washington1
- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington1
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
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
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No picture of Cominella eocenica 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 Cominella eocenica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cominella eocenica 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 itCominella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1912)