Cerithiella

Cerithiella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Newtoniellidae.

Cerithiella

Charles Hedley · Public Domain · 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
TriforidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Triphoroidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Triphoroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Triphoroidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 115 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 204 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 40 of 204 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 28 of 204 occurrencesEocene — about 85 of 204 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 204 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 36 of 204 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 204 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 204 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–99 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–78 Mya — about 5 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 11 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 18 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 9 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 15 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 9 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 56 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 11 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 16 occurrences13–8.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.4–4.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.3–204 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence119.57 Mya3.6 Mya124 Mya204 ka

204 occurrences of Cerithiella on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

204 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

61 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 88.06°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WEscondido — 29.35°N, 99.02°WEscondido — 29.24°N, 99.23°WEscondido — 29.25°N, 99.24°WEscondido — 28.86°N, 100.23°WEscondido — 28.58°N, 100.39°WCoffee Sand — 34.43°N, 88.42°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°ELisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WCarbonera — 6.80°N, 73.58°WCarbonera — 8.33°N, 73.67°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.04°N, 92.02°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.91°N, 87.74°WDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.00°WMexcala — 18.16°N, 98.94°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WLower Sandy Shales — 8.07°N, 72.35°W

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The named rock units Cerithiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cerithiella and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cerithiella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,935 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 136 sites for Cerithiella, 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

56 references

Each of the 204 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. 44 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 content1

Picture of Cerithiella

Credit
Charles Hedley
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itTriforidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Verrill 1882