Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella)

Cerithiopsidella cosmia (Bartsch, 1907), a relative of Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella) — not Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella) itself

Not Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella). This is Cerithiopsidella cosmia (Bartsch, 1907), a relative — both are Cerithiopsidae.

Jeff Goddard · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
CerithiopsisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cerithiopsidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiopsidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiopsidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 27 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella) 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

27 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

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WOrtovero Clay — 44.10°N, 8.23°E

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The named rock units Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella) and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,066 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella), 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

14 references

Each of the 27 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. 2 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 Cerithiopsidella cosmia (Bartsch, 1907)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Jeff Goddard
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCerithiopsis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bartsch 1911)