Ranella cowlitzensis

Ranella cowlitzensis

Paul Norwood · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
RanellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEocene60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya41.03 Mya59.7 Mya37.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Ranella cowlitzensis on record. 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

3 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

2 formations

Sepultura — 29.76°N, 115.52°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°W

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The named rock units Ranella cowlitzensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ranella cowlitzensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 3 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 Ranella cowlitzensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Paul Norwood
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ranella cowlitzensis 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRanella through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weaver 1912