Cucullaea raea

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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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
29 occurrences of Cucullaea raea 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
29 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Cucullaea raea 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 raea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cucullaea raea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
142 taxa- Polinices (Polinices) subtenuis27 sites
- Saxolucina sharmani21 sites
- Eurhomalea newtoni17 sites
- Struthioptera camachoi16 sites
- Sudonassarius antarctohimaleos16 sites
- Antarctodarwinella nordenskjoldi15 sites
- Austrobuccinum tuberosum15 sites
- Colposigma euthenia15 sites
- Austrotoma oliveroi13 sites
- Cyclorismina marwicki13 sites
- Lahillia wilckensi12 sites
- Mactra irizari12 sites
- Austroficopsis seymourensis10 sites
- Austroficopsis wimani10 sites
- Eucrassatella wilckensi10 sites
- Eoscaphella fordycei9 sites
- Ostrea antarctica9 sites
- Sigapatella disapicula9 sites
- Conomitra iredalei8 sites
- Eurhomalea antarctica8 sites
- Nucula (Leionucula) nova8 sites
- Antarctodarwinella ellioti7 sites
- Scaphander (Kaitoa) duseni7 sites
- Modiolus thomsoni6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Cucullaea raea, 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
1 referenceEach of the 29 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cucullaea raea
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cucullaea raea 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 itCucullaea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zinsmeister 1984