Pyruclia scheibei

University of Washington Burke Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- PyrucliaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
11 occurrences of Pyruclia scheibei 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Tubará Formation6
- Araya Formation · Cubagua Group2
- Chagres Sandstone Formation1
- Gatun Formation1
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The named rock units Pyruclia scheibei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pyruclia scheibei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pyruclia scheibei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Conus imitator3 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana3 sites
- Turritella (Broderiptella) bifastigata cartagenensis3 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
- Cancellaria (Cancellaria)2 sites
- Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus2 sites
- Polinices hepaticus2 sites
- Polinices stanislasmeunieri2 sites
- Raeta undulata2 sites
- Sincola (Dorsina) colombiana2 sites
- Strombus gatunensis2 sites
- Terebra (Oreoterebra) isaacpetiti2 sites
- Terebra (Strioterebrum) cirrus2 sites
- Turritella (Broderiptella) mimetes2 sites
- Acila (Acila) isthmica isthmica1 site
- Amusium mimyum1 site
- Amusium toulae1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) hispaniolana1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) lloydi1 site
- Anadara (Grandiarca) usiacurii1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) honensis adiaphora1 site
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis karsteni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pyruclia scheibei, 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
9 references- Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia3
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- New Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, with eleven new species1
- Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy1
- Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).1
- Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia1
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.1
Each of the 11 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. 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 Pyruclia scheibei
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- University of Washington Burke Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pyruclia scheibei 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.
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What may have been alongside itPyruclia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1929)