Cerithium obesum
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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 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
18 occurrences of Cerithium obesum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
18 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Cerithium obesum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cerithium obesum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cerithium obesum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Petaloconchus domingensis7 sites
- Spondylus bostrychites7 sites
- Orbicella limbata6 sites
- Vermicularia woodringi6 sites
- Cerithiidae5 sites
- Triphoridae5 sites
- Solenastrea bournoni4 sites
- Stephanocoenia spongiformis4 sites
- Antillocyathus maoensis3 sites
- Aphera islacolonis3 sites
- Cerithium dominicense3 sites
- Cerithium microlineatum3 sites
- Limidae3 sites
- Manicina grandis3 sites
- Polinices3 sites
- Porites baracoaensis3 sites
- Porites portoricensis3 sites
- Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava)3 sites
- Stephanocoenia duncani3 sites
- Tectonatica3 sites
- Trigonulina bowdenensis3 sites
- Xenophora delecta3 sites
- Anodontia2 sites
- Argopecten eccentricus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cerithium obesum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 18 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
Media content0
No picture of Cerithium obesum 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 Cerithium obesum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cerithium obesum 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.
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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guppy 1876