Cylichnella

Cylichnella is a genus of sea snails or bubble snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cylichnidae, the "chalice bubble snails".

Cylichnella

MNHN - Alexandre LARDEUR - 2020 · 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
CylichnidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cylichnidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cylichnidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cylichnidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 83 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 83 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 83 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 83 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 46 of 83 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 83 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 83 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 16 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 19 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

83 occurrences of Cylichnella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

83 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

23 formations

Gatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WNullarbor Limestone — 32.03°S, 124.33°EBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WWarak — 19.51°N, 57.59°EValiente — 9.21°N, 82.11°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°W

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The named rock units Cylichnella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cylichnella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cylichnella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,027 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Cylichnella, 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

27 references

Each of the 83 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. 15 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 Cylichnella

Credit
MNHN - Alexandre LARDEUR - 2020
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cylichnella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itCylichnidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1873)