Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Cerithium (Ptychocerithium)PBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Cerithium
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithium
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithium
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum 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

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

1 formation

Malua — 16.25°S, 167.50°E

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The named rock units Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

4 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. 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 content0

No picture of Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

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

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What may have been alongside itCerithium (Ptychocerithium) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1855)