Cerithium simplex
No picture of Cerithium simplex 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 simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cerithium simplex on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
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The named rock units Cerithium simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cerithium simplex and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cerithium simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Bittium yaguense2 sites
- Cerithiidae2 sites
- Cerithium dominicense2 sites
- Cerithium obesum2 sites
- Orbicella limbata2 sites
- Petaloconchus domingensis2 sites
- Solenastrea bournoni2 sites
- Tectonatica2 sites
- Triphoridae2 sites
- Vermicularia woodringi2 sites
- Argopecten thetidis1 site
- Argyrotheca johnsoni1 site
- Laevicardium vitellinum1 site
- Manicina jungi1 site
- Montastraea endothecata1 site
- Porites baracoaensis1 site
- Porites macdonaldi1 site
- Porites portoricensis1 site
- Porites waylandi1 site
- Semicassis reclusa1 site
- Spondylus bostrychites1 site
- Stephanocoenia spongiformis1 site
- Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) haitensis sambaica1 site
- Vokesimurex messorius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cerithium simplex, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Cerithium simplex 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 simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cerithium simplex 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCerithium through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1873