Cerithidea

Cerithidea is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae, the horn snails.

Cerithidea

Sofya Zvonareva, Yuri Kantor, Xinzheng Li & Temir Britayev · CC BY 4.0 · 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
PotamididaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Potamididae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Potamididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Potamididae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 164 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 164 occurrencesEocene — about 41 of 164 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 164 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 28 of 164 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 164 occurrencesPleistocene — about 58 of 164 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 13 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 13 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 7 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 24 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 67 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka87 Mya0 Mya

164 occurrences of Cerithidea 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

164 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

41 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°EKunugidaira — 36.83°N, 145.75°EKunugidaira — 37.00°N, 140.75°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 6.73°S, 108.67°EKabuh — 7.49°S, 110.00°ETamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTsurikake — 42.09°N, 139.47°ETsurikake — 42.20°N, 139.53°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°EFunks — 38.90°N, 122.26°WItahana — 36.00°N, 139.00°EThompson — 26.65°N, 80.45°WPoivre — 20.83°S, 115.42°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°EGaj — 25.32°N, 67.87°EGaj — 25.56°N, 67.90°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°EMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WTainohata — 34.75°N, 135.17°EHigashi-lnnai — 37.49°N, 137.17°ESooke — 48.38°N, 123.87°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°W

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The named rock units Cerithidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cerithidea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cerithidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,012 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Cerithidea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

61 references

Each of the 164 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. 49 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

Media content2

Picture of Cerithidea

Credit
Sofya Zvonareva, Yuri Kantor, Xinzheng Li & Temir Britayev
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
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the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)