Gyrineum

Gyrineum is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.

Gyrineum

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
RanellinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 113 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 113 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 113 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 113 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 50 of 113 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 113 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 113 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–45 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 12 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 15 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 26 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

113 occurrences of Gyrineum 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

113 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

40 formations

Togopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EBaldissero — 45.07°N, 7.82°ETejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.92°WGaj — 23.33°N, 68.85°EGaj — 23.43°N, 68.95°EGaj — 24.87°N, 67.05°EQuimper — 47.95°N, 122.68°WQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°EBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EChasra — 23.09°N, 69.05°EChasra — 23.42°N, 68.75°ECapay — 39.21°N, 121.78°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WMandul Marl — 3.75°N, 117.65°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°EChatti Mudstone — 25.25°N, 62.25°EQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°ENakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°EDingle — 11.16°N, 122.62°EUlian — 11.03°N, 122.48°EGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°EOrmara & Jiwani — 25.25°N, 62.25°ENishikurosawa — 39.70°N, 140.12°EMerced — 47.35°N, 124.29°WArenas de Huelva — 37.32°N, 6.67°W

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The named rock units Gyrineum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gyrineum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gyrineum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Gyrineum, 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

51 references

Each of the 113 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. 39 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 Gyrineum

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gyrineum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Link 1807