Cerithium terebrale

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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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
2 occurrences of Cerithium terebrale on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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 terebrale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cerithium terebrale and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cerithium terebrale and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
225 taxa- Cochlis epiglottina2 sites
- <Theridomyid>1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Adelomys1 site
- Amaurellina spirata1 site
- Amphiperatherium1 site
- Ampullaria acuminata1 site
- Ampullaria canaliculata1 site
- Ampullaria depressa1 site
- Ampullaria excavata1 site
- Ampullaria patula1 site
- Ampullaria sigaretina1 site
- Ancilla1 site
- Ancistrosyrinx terebralis1 site
- Arca1 site
- Athleta (Volutospina) spinosa1 site
- Auricula acicula1 site
- Auricula hordeola1 site
- Auricula miliola1 site
- Auricula ovata1 site
- Auricula ringens1 site
- Auricula sulcata1 site
- Auricula terebellata1 site
- Balanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cerithium terebrale, 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
2 references- On the discovery of an alligator and of several new Mammalia in the Hordwell Cliff; with observations upon the geological phenomena of that locality1
- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris1
Each 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
Media content1

Picture of Cerithium terebrale
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cerithium terebrale 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1804