Crucibulum spinosum

Crucibulum spinosum, common name the spiny cup-and-saucer snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails and cup-and-saucer snails.

Crucibulum spinosum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
spiny cup-and-saucerPBDB
Sits inside
CrucibulumPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crucibulum
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Crucibulum
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Crucibulum
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 48 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 35 of 48 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 48 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–809 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 28 occurrences3.6 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

48 occurrences of Crucibulum spinosum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

48 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

14 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.41°N, 118.71°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WSan Pedro — 33.85°N, 118.06°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°WBay Point — 32.78°N, 117.24°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WTowsley — 34.41°N, 118.48°W

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The named rock units Crucibulum spinosum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crucibulum spinosum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Crucibulum spinosum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Crucibulum spinosum, 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

26 references

Each of the 48 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. 14 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 Crucibulum spinosum

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Crucibulum spinosum 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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 1855