Cornulina minax
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CornulinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
25 occurrences of Cornulina minax 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
25 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
12 formations
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group4
- Pendleton Ferry Formation · Wilcox Group4
- Barton Clay Formation3
- Selsey Formation2
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group2
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The named rock units Cornulina minax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cornulina minax and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cornulina minax and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
765 taxa- Clavilithes10 sites
- Turricula9 sites
- Corbula8 sites
- Glycymeris8 sites
- Turbonilla8 sites
- Dentalium7 sites
- Odostomia7 sites
- Panopea7 sites
- Volvulella7 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum6 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica6 sites
- Crassatella6 sites
- Fusinus6 sites
- Mathilda6 sites
- Melanella6 sites
- Natica6 sites
- Nucula6 sites
- Pseudoliva6 sites
- Sycostoma6 sites
- Acteon5 sites
- Amusium5 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina)5 sites
- Chama5 sites
- Crassispira (Tripia) granulata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cornulina minax, 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
11 references- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area8
- Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana4
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas2
- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire1
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex1
- Fossils from the Bracklesham Group exposed in the M27 Motorway excavations, Southampton, Hampshire1
- Exposures of the Barton Beds along the Highland Water in the New Forest, Hants1
- Account of Excavations into the Campanile Bed (Eocene, Selsey Formation) at Stubbington, Hants1
- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria1
Each of the 25 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 Cornulina minax
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cornulina minax 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 itCornulina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Solander 1766)