Macrocypraea zebra

Macrocypraea zebra, common name the measled cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Macrocypraea zebra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MacrocypraeaPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Macrocypraea zebra 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

13 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

6 formations

Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGrand Bay — 12.48°N, 61.44°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WDevonshire — 32.30°N, 64.75°WDevonshire — 32.31°N, 64.87°WMao — 19.67°N, 71.40°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°W

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The named rock units Macrocypraea zebra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macrocypraea zebra and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Macrocypraea zebra and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

277 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Macrocypraea zebra, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Macrocypraea zebra

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Macrocypraea zebra 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.

The description on this site

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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 itMacrocypraea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)