Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThericiumPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Campanilidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Campanilidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Campanilidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 41 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.
37 occurrences of Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum 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
37 occurrences- Eocene3%
- Miocene49%
- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene27%
- Holocene5%
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
11 formations
- Rhodes Formation2
- Maraldi Sandstone Formation1
- Kasaba Formation1
- Curchia Formation1
- Villamagna. Formation1
- Panchina Formation1
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The named rock units Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
938 taxa- Conus12 sites
- Anadara11 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis11 sites
- Ostrea edulis11 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata10 sites
- Ctena decussata10 sites
- Gastrana fragilis10 sites
- Glycymeris10 sites
- Nassarius10 sites
- Vermetus10 sites
- Aequipecten9 sites
- Bittium reticulatum9 sites
- Gibbula9 sites
- Lima lima9 sites
- Rissoa9 sites
- Anomia ephippium8 sites
- Architectonica8 sites
- Chlamys8 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata8 sites
- Talochlamys pusio8 sites
- Turritella8 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella8 sites
- Alvania7 sites
- Arca noae7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum, 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
22 references- Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]9
- Facies analysis, paleoecology and sequence stratigraphy in a Pliocene siliciclastic succession, Sanb Miniato (Pisa, Italy)4
- Seagrass-Associated Molluscan and Fish Communities from the Early Pleistocene of the Island of Rhodes (Greece)2
- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement2
- Last-interglacial records from central Asia to the northern Black Sea shoreline: stratigraphy and correlation2
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Cyclophoridae à Stilifetidae2
- The marine fossils malacofauna in a Plio-Pleistocene section from Vallin Buio (Livorno, Italy)1
- Badenian gastropods from the collections of the Mure County Museum1
- A fauna da Idade do Ferro e da Época Romana de Monte Molião (Lagos, Algarve): continuidades e rupturas na dieta alimentar1
- Commets on the Badenian Fauna (Middle Miocene) from Bahna (Southern Carpathians, Romania)1
- I paleositi a vertebrati fossili della Provinia di Pisa1
- Kasaba Miyosen havzasinin Gastropoda faunasi (Bati Toroslar, GB Türkiye)1
Each of the 37 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. 10 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 Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- manelor
- 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 itThericium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bruguière 1789)