Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria
No picture of Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 1.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
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The named rock units Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa1 site
- Busycon (Echinofulgur) echinatum helenae1 site
- Calliostoma (Leiotrochus)1 site
- Cancellaria (Massyla) shirleyae1 site
- Cymatosyrinx aclinica1 site
- Hindsia1 site
- Ilyanassa1 site
- Ilyanassa marthae1 site
- Littorina sheaferi1 site
- Perplicaria perplexa1 site
- Placunanomia plicata1 site
- Planicardium virginianum1 site
- Scaphella1 site
- Terebra1 site
- Trigonostoma1 site
- Trigonostoma (Emmonsella) smithfieldensis1 site
- Trigonostoma (Extractrix) hoerlei1 site
- Turritella (Broderiptella) mansfieldi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Siphocypraea (Siphocypraea) transitoria 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 itFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson and Petit 1964