Ataxocerithium
Searched as Ataxocerithium pullum. The Paleobiology Database treats Ataxocerithium as the accepted name.
Ataxocerithium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Newtoniellidae.
Uncredited · 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
- NewtoniellidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Triphoroidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Triphoroidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Triphoroidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ataxocerithium on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
2 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Ataxocerithium and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ataxocerithium and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
723 taxa- Crepidula4 sites
- Sassia4 sites
- Turbonilla4 sites
- Acteon3 sites
- Cerithiopsis3 sites
- Cirsotrema3 sites
- Emarginula3 sites
- Mathilda3 sites
- Mitrella3 sites
- Odostomia3 sites
- Syrnola3 sites
- Trophon3 sites
- Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus)3 sites
- Acteocina2 sites
- Atilia2 sites
- Austromitra2 sites
- Bittium (Semibittium)2 sites
- Caecum2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Cancellaria (Merica)2 sites
- Cerithiella2 sites
- Chemnitzia2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Cingula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ataxocerithium, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Ataxocerithium
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Ataxocerithium 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNewtoniellidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tate 1893