Cerithium eburneum

Cerithium eburneum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae.

Cerithium eburneum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CerithiumPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Cerithium
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithium
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithium
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 3 of 31 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 26 of 31 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 31 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Cerithium eburneum 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

31 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

12 formations

Belmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WBelmont — 32.36°N, 64.71°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°W

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The named rock units Cerithium eburneum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cerithium eburneum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cerithium eburneum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cerithium eburneum, 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

15 references

Each of the 31 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. 3 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 eburneum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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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What may have been alongside itCerithium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bruguière 1792