Ringicula (Ringiculella)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RingiculaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ringicula
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ringiculidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ringiculidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 64 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 64 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 23 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 64 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 64 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 11 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 28 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences61.66 Mya1.8 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Ringicula (Ringiculella) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

64 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

19 formations

Gatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.63°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WManantial — 11.54°N, 72.91°WManantial — 11.11°N, 72.68°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaimito — 9.21°N, 79.91°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WPenita — 8.00°N, 82.97°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°EDrazinda — 30.42°N, 70.51°E

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The named rock units Ringicula (Ringiculella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ringicula (Ringiculella) and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Ringicula (Ringiculella) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,287 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Ringicula (Ringiculella), 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

17 references

Each of the 64 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. 5 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

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No picture of Ringicula (Ringiculella) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ringicula (Ringiculella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ringicula (Ringiculella) 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sacco 1892)