Sydaphera

Sydaphera is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Sydaphera

Shellnut · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CancellariinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–698 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence698 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences13.82 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Sydaphera 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

11 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

8 formations

Toshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ETomioka — 42.77°N, 143.02°EAscot — 32.08°S, 115.92°EPoint Allen — 36.00°S, 137.17°EToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°ESakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EShimo — 35.51°N, 135.51°E

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The named rock units Sydaphera 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.

Sydaphera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sydaphera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

531 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Sydaphera, 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

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 Sydaphera

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

No 3D scan of Sydaphera 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itCancellariinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1929