Cerithiopsis tubercularis

Cerithiopsis tubercularis is a species of sea snail, a gastropod in the family Cerithiopsidae, It was described by Montagu, in 1803.

Cerithiopsis tubercularis

George Brettingham Sowerby II · 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
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 5 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya774 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Cerithiopsis tubercularis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

13 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

7 formations

Coralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EKef El Haroun — 33.58°N, 7.65°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°ESabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.43°ERhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°E

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The named rock units Cerithiopsis tubercularis 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 tubercularis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cerithiopsis tubercularis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,003 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cerithiopsis tubercularis, 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 13 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 Cerithiopsis tubercularis

Credit
George Brettingham Sowerby II
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Montagu 1803)