Cornulina

Cornulina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelongenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 75 occurrencesPaleocene — about 16 of 75 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 59 of 75 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 75 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences59.24 Mya37.71 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

75 occurrences of Cornulina 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

75 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

30 formations

Hatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.94°N, 88.06°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.52°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.96°N, 88.07°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.38°WCook Mountain — 31.40°N, 93.71°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.52°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.75°WPendleton Ferry — 31.40°N, 93.71°WPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.35°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.74°N, 93.40°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.25°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WCarbonera — 6.80°N, 73.58°WCarbonera — 8.33°N, 73.67°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 32.25°N, 87.77°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.92°N, 87.52°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WLower Sandy Shales — 8.07°N, 72.35°WLogansport — 31.57°N, 93.55°WLisbon — 31.83°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WMarthaville — 31.74°N, 93.40°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WMount Selman — 26.78°N, 99.33°WLaredo — 26.43°N, 99.15°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ESaman — 4.84°S, 80.77°WTalara — 5.13°S, 81.17°W

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The named rock units Cornulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Cornulina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cornulina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,695 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Cornulina, 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

23 references

Each of the 75 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. 11 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 Cornulina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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. (Conrad 1853)