Echinophoria

Echinophoria is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.

Echinophoria

Manuel CABALLER · 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
PhaliinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 132 occurrencesEocene — about 26 of 132 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 132 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 74 of 132 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 132 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 132 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 9 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 12 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

132 occurrences of Echinophoria 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

132 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

39 formations

Keasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 45.72°N, 123.20°WKeasey — 45.74°N, 123.27°WChagres Sandstone — 9.60°N, 79.53°WChagres Sandstone — 9.17°N, 80.25°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WEsmeraldas — 0.83°S, 77.53°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WCaimito — 9.16°N, 79.87°WCaimito — 9.15°N, 79.87°WCaimito — 9.21°N, 79.82°WBelmont — 12.50°N, 61.44°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WShark Hole Point — 9.06°N, 81.79°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.22°EIhungia — 40.03°S, 176.37°ECowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ELos Perdices Shale — 10.99°N, 74.95°WLos Perdices Shale — 10.75°N, 75.00°WCulebra — 9.06°N, 79.66°WBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°EBranden Clay — 57.27°N, 9.73°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EQuimper — 47.95°N, 122.68°WQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WPorter — 46.94°N, 123.31°WTownsend Shale — 47.54°N, 122.64°WWaihao — 44.16°S, 171.10°EMariana Limestone — 13.45°N, 144.78°EGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WSt Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°W

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The named rock units Echinophoria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Echinophoria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Echinophoria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

963 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Echinophoria, and this reads all 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

41 references

Each of the 132 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. 29 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 Echinophoria

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Manuel CABALLER
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CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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. (Sacco 1890)