Cucullaea alta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CucullaeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cucullaea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cucullaea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cucullaea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cucullaeidae
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.
19 occurrences of Cucullaea alta on record. 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
19 occurrences- Eocene11%
- Oligocene7%
- Miocene81%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistoceneunder 1%
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
7 formations
- Monte Leon Fm Formation5
- Guadal Formation4
- Rio Turbio Formation2
- Navidad Formation2
- Monte Leon Formation2
- San Julian Formation1
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The named rock units Cucullaea alta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Panopea5 sites
- Calliostoma3 sites
- Calyptraea3 sites
- Cardium3 sites
- Dosinia3 sites
- Miomelon gracilis3 sites
- Nucula3 sites
- Retrotapes3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Arca (Arca) patagonica2 sites
- Austroimbricaria quemadensis2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Chaceon peruvianus2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Crassostrea hatcheri2 sites
- Cucullaea marshalli2 sites
- Echinoidea2 sites
- Eopleurotoma2 sites
- Gari (Psammobia)2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Jorgechlamys centralis2 sites
- Limopsis insolita2 sites
- Mactra2 sites
- Mactra patagonica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cucullaea alta, 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- Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis7
- Invertibrados fósiles marinos de la Formación Guadal (Oligoceno superio-Mioceno inferior) en Pampa, Castillo region, región de Aisén, Chile4
- Mass mortality of fossil decapods within the Monte Leon Formation (early Miocene), southern Argentina: victims of Andean Volcanism?2
- Molluscos bivalvos y gastrópodos del Mioceno marino de Isla Stokes, sur de Chile2
- Eocene bivalves from the Rio Turbio Formation, southwestern Patagonia (Argentina)2
- Molluscos del Terciario Inferior ("Magallanense") de la Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego (Republica Argentina)1
- Monografia de los terrenos marinos terciarios, de las cercanias del Parana1
Each of the 19 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 Cucullaea alta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cucullaea alta 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1846