Cryptonatica

Cryptonatica is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Cryptonatica

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NaticinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 215 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 215 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 215 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 215 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 70 of 215 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 41 of 215 occurrencesPleistocene — about 82 of 215 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 17 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 11 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 46 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 76 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

215 occurrences of Cryptonatica on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

215 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

49 formations

Astoria — 44.73°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WAstoria — 44.65°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WTachilni — 54.98°N, 162.85°WTachilni — 54.98°N, 163.85°WTachilni — 54.92°N, 163.87°WTachilni — 54.85°N, 163.41°WNarrow Cape — 56.54°N, 154.34°WEmpire — 43.43°N, 124.23°WEmpire — 43.39°N, 124.28°WEmpire — 42.84°N, 124.56°WPresumpscot — 43.84°N, 70.10°WPresumpscot — 44.23°N, 69.78°WPresumpscot — 43.31°N, 69.78°WPresumpscot — 43.50°N, 70.44°WPresumpscot — 43.64°N, 70.26°WMerced — 47.35°N, 124.29°WMerced — 37.38°N, 122.19°WLomita Marl — 33.79°N, 118.35°WEtchegoin — 36.25°N, 120.31°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.33°WGubik — 70.90°N, 155.96°WGubik — 70.07°N, 151.39°WGubik — 69.35°N, 162.80°WIshiizawa — 42.80°N, 143.81°ETentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°EFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WTopsy — 58.64°N, 137.58°WTopsy — 58.39°N, 137.09°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WTomioka — 42.77°N, 143.02°ETokmuro — 42.92°N, 143.75°ESaxicava Clay — 49.58°N, 57.93°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°EFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WPoul Creek — 60.07°N, 142.27°WPoul Creek — 60.01°N, 141.45°W

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The named rock units Cryptonatica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptonatica and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cryptonatica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,696 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 142 sites for Cryptonatica, 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

64 references

Each of the 215 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. 52 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 Cryptonatica

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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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What may have been alongside itNaticinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1892)