Cylichnina tantilla
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Retusa (Cylichnina)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Retusidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Retusidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Retusidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
92 occurrences of Cylichnina tantilla 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
92 occurrencesThese 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
19 formations
- Llajas Formation25
- Juncal Formation22
- Santa Susana Formation6
- Roseburg Formation · Umpqua Group5
- Flournoy Formation · Umpqua Group5
- Tyee Formation5
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The named rock units Cylichnina tantilla 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.
Cylichnina tantilla and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cylichnina tantilla and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
511 taxa- Eocernina hannibali37 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki37 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana29 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus28 sites
- Ficopsis remondii28 sites
- Turritella buwaldana27 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum20 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni19 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata18 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii18 sites
- Lyria andersoni16 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata15 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii15 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa14 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis14 sites
- Clavilithes tabulatus14 sites
- Pitar (Lamelliconcha) joaquinensis14 sites
- Tejonia moragai13 sites
- Turricula cooperi12 sites
- Turritella uvasana applinae12 sites
- Brachiodontes11 sites
- Dentalium (Laevidentalium) calafium11 sites
- Ostrea11 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Cylichnina tantilla, 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
18 references- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California24
- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California16
- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon15
- Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California8
- Upper Paleocene to Lower Eocene ("Meganos Stage") Marine Megafossils in the Uppermost Santa Susana Formation, Simi Valley, Southern California6
- Geologic Map and Database of the Roseburg 30 x 60' Quadrangle, Douglas and Coos Counties, Oregon5
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California3
- Eocene megapaleontology, stratigraphy, and depositional environments, Elsmere Canyon, Los Angeles County, California2
- Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico2
- Molluscan Paleontology of the Lower Eocene Maniobra Formation, Orocopia Mountains, Southern California2
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California2
- Marine fauna of the middle Eocene Tukwila Formation, King County1
Each of the 92 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. 6 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 Cylichnina tantilla
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No 3D scan of Cylichnina tantilla 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 itRetusa (Cylichnina) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson and Hanna 1925)