Cernina

Cernina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmpullinidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 122 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 122 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 122 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 112 of 122 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 122 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 122 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 122 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 15 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 15 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 31 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 35 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 13 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–6.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100.5 Mya11.63 Mya108 Mya3 Mya

122 occurrences of Cernina 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

122 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

25 formations

Llajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.77°WJuncal — 34.77°N, 119.16°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.71°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.74°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.75°WManiobra — 33.63°N, 115.68°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.23°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.75°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.74°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.93°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WFlournoy — 43.26°N, 123.03°WBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WBateque — 26.67°N, 112.94°WFutuna Limestone — 18.22°S, 178.78°EPromina — 43.95°N, 16.07°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°EOrizzonte di Ronca — 45.48°N, 11.28°EArdath — 32.89°N, 117.25°WArdath — 32.89°N, 117.25°WRoseburg — 43.02°N, 123.92°WRoseburg — 43.29°N, 123.50°WTejon — 34.91°N, 119.04°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WLignites de Traiguera — 40.52°N, 0.30°WQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°EChasra — 23.09°N, 69.05°EGetkilna — 60.92°N, 163.78°ESables de Cresnes — 49.20°N, 2.02°EBand-e- Chaker — 26.68°N, 57.93°ESan Emigdio — 34.92°N, 119.30°WTyee — 43.74°N, 123.19°WSimi — 34.26°N, 118.72°W

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The named rock units Cernina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cernina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cernina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

725 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Cernina, 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

30 references

Each of the 122 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. 18 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 Cernina

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 Cernina 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 itAmpullinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1842)