Cerithiopsis vinca

Cerithiopsis vinca is a species of sea snail, a gastropod in the family Cerithiopsidae, which is known from the Gulf of Mexico. It was described by Olsson and Harbison, in 1953.

No picture of Cerithiopsis vinca was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cerithiopsis vinca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.7–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.0–912 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences912 ka–784 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences784 ka–657 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1 Mya274 ka

4 occurrences of Cerithiopsis vinca on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

4 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

3 formations

James City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°W

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The named rock units Cerithiopsis vinca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cerithiopsis vinca and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cerithiopsis vinca and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

401 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cerithiopsis vinca, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Cerithiopsis vinca was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cerithiopsis vinca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cerithiopsis vinca was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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. (Olsson and Harbison 1953)