Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ErosariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
44 occurrences of Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola 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
44 occurrences- Miocene7%
- Pliocene5%
- Pleistocene86%
- Holocene2%
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
8 formations
- Waimanalo Formation15
- Aldabra Limestone Formation5
- Ndalithoni Limestone Formation2
- Naha Formation · Ryukyu Group1
- Bundera Calcarenite Formation1
- Futuna Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
441 taxa- Conus5 sites
- Turbo (Turbo) petholatus5 sites
- Oliva4 sites
- Acar plicata3 sites
- Cypraea (Erosaria) caputserpentis3 sites
- Drupa3 sites
- Latirus3 sites
- Luria isabella3 sites
- Lyncina carneola3 sites
- Monoplex pilearis3 sites
- Naria erosa3 sites
- Neritopsis radula3 sites
- Tenagodus3 sites
- Terebra3 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata2 sites
- Astralium2 sites
- Cancilla2 sites
- Casmaria ponderosa2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Chicoreus2 sites
- Comitas2 sites
- Dolicholatirus2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Drupella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola, 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
12 references- Fossil mollusks of Oahu, Hawaii Islands15
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae)9
- Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblages from the coral reefs of the Kenya coast6
- Faunal response to the instability of reef habitats: Pleistocene molluscan assemblages of Aldabra Atoll6
- Sedimentology of rocky shorelines: 4. Coarse gravel lithofacies, molluscan biofacies, and the stratigraphic and eustatic records in the type area of the Pleistocene Hulopoe Gravel, Lanai, Hawaii1
- Origins and development of Holocene coral reefs: a revisited model based on reef boreholes in the Seychelles, Indian Ocean1
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia1
- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca1
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
- Recent and fossil marine Mollusca of Tongatabu1
- Marine mollusca from the "Ryukyu Limestone" of Kikai-Zima, Ryukyu Group1
Each of the 44 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
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No picture of Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola 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.
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. (Linnaeus 1758)