Cypraeorbis willcoxi
No picture of Cypraeorbis willcoxi 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 Cypraeorbis willcoxi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CypraeorbisPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Cypraeorbis willcoxi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
25 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group25
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The named rock units Cypraeorbis willcoxi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cypraeorbis willcoxi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cypraeorbis willcoxi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
360 taxa- Conus isomatratus14 sites
- Conus sulculus13 sites
- Conus chipolanus12 sites
- Conus demiurgus12 sites
- Hemicerithium cossmanni12 sites
- Oliva (Omogymna) martensii12 sites
- Poirieria (Panamurex) mauryae12 sites
- Cerithium (Thericium) vokesorum11 sites
- Conus erugatus11 sites
- Conus tapetus11 sites
- Oliva (Omogymna) liodes11 sites
- Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) chipolana11 sites
- Conus gardnerae10 sites
- Hexaplex (Hexaplex) veatchi10 sites
- Typhina obesa10 sites
- Alaba chipolana9 sites
- Alabina (Caloosalba) boiplex9 sites
- Alabina (Caloosalba) turbatrix9 sites
- Conus aneuretos9 sites
- Dermomurex (Viator) vaughani9 sites
- Kuphus incrassatus9 sites
- Miltha chipolana9 sites
- Cerithium (Thericium) burnsii8 sites
- Dermomurex (Trialatella) farleyensis8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Cypraeorbis willcoxi, 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
2 references- Cypraeoidea and Lamellarioidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda), from the Chipola Formation (late early Miocene) of northwestern Florida24
- New fossil Cypraeidae from the Miocene of Florida and Colombia1
Each of the 25 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cypraeorbis willcoxi 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 Cypraeorbis willcoxi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cypraeorbis willcoxi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCypraeorbis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1890)