Cucullaea granulosa

Jonas, 1846 · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
- 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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Cucullaea granulosa 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene86%
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
2 formations
- Toukoshan Formation · Miaoli Group5
- Upper Kalibeng Formation1
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The named rock units Cucullaea granulosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cucullaea granulosa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cucullaea granulosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana5 sites
- Nassarius5 sites
- Anadara4 sites
- Clavatula4 sites
- Crassatella4 sites
- Lophiotoma4 sites
- Natica alapapilionis4 sites
- Pecten4 sites
- Placamen tiara4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Venericardia4 sites
- Crassispira3 sites
- Imbricaria flammea3 sites
- Murex3 sites
- Oliva3 sites
- Striarca3 sites
- Turricula3 sites
- Amusium2 sites
- Canarium2 sites
- Chlamys (Azumapecten) squamata2 sites
- Clathrodrillia2 sites
- Conasprella (Fusiconus) aculeiformis2 sites
- Olivella2 sites
- Paphia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cucullaea granulosa, 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
3 references- Faunal analysis of the Upper Miaoli Group in the Tunghsiao area, Miaoli Province, Formosa, China5
- Skwarko, 19941
- Marine mollusca from the "Ryukyu Limestone" of Kikai-Zima, Ryukyu Group1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cucullaea granulosa
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Jonas, 1846
- 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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What may have been alongside itCucullaea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jonas 1846