Cypraeoidea

Cypraeoidea, the cowries and cowry allies, is a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropods included in the order Littorinimorpha. This superfamily had been called Cypraeacea and was named by Rafinesque in 1815.

Cypraeoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LatrogastropodaPBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 499 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 508.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 2855 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 2855 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 2855 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 2855 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 2855 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 2855 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 2855 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 2855 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 2855 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2855 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2855 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 2855 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 2855 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 65 of 2855 occurrencesPaleocene — about 85 of 2855 occurrencesEocene — about 510 of 2855 occurrencesOligocene — about 156 of 2855 occurrencesMiocene — about 898 of 2855 occurrencesPliocene — about 457 of 2855 occurrencesPleistocene — about 645 of 2855 occurrences518–501 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences501–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–86 Mya — about 14 occurrences86–69 Mya — about 41 occurrences69–52 Mya — about 156 occurrences52–35 Mya — about 432 occurrences35–17 Mya — about 483 occurrences17–0 Mya — about 1720 occurrences499.5 Mya11.7 ka518 Mya0 Mya

2,855 occurrences of Cypraeoidea 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

2,855 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

431 formations

Waimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.70°N, 157.98°WWaimanalo — 21.57°N, 158.27°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.28°N, 157.70°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.85°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 157.90°WWaimanalo — 21.43°N, 158.18°WWaimanalo — 21.62°N, 158.07°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.32°N, 70.68°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 70.95°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.59°N, 84.58°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WChipola — 30.45°N, 85.17°WChipola — 28.57°N, 80.79°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WTamiami — 26.72°N, 81.71°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 28.23°N, 81.02°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ECook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCook Mountain — 31.32°N, 95.46°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 30.02°N, 97.07°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCook Mountain — 32.34°N, 89.14°WFyansford — 38.23°S, 145.02°EFyansford — 38.13°S, 144.28°EFyansford — 38.17°S, 144.34°EFyansford — 38.18°S, 144.50°EFyansford — 38.05°S, 143.99°EMarnes de Gan — 43.23°N, 0.40°WMarnes de Gan — 43.21°N, 0.39°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WCaloosahatchee — 26.13°N, 80.62°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.78°N, 92.49°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WJan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°EJan Juc — 38.38°S, 144.43°EJan Juc — 35.97°S, 145.00°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.75°N, 1.10°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.91°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCantaure — 11.95°N, 70.03°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.70°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WFalun de Saucats — 43.73°N, 1.03°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.35°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WWeches — 31.62°N, 94.89°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EBaldissero — 45.07°N, 7.82°ELillo — 51.28°N, 4.37°ELillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°W

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The named rock units Cypraeoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 407 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 721 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypraeoidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cypraeoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,740 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 933 sites for Cypraeoidea, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

505 references

Each of the 2,855 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. 493 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 Cypraeoidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cypraeoidea 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 itLatrogastropoda through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815