Dirocerithium

Dirocerithium

Zachos, Louis · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CerithiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiidae
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.

Eocene — about 24 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.03 Mya37.71 Mya48.6 Mya33.4 Mya

24 occurrences of Dirocerithium 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

24 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

10 formations

Weches — 30.90°N, 96.39°WWeches — 31.26°N, 95.98°WWeches — 31.56°N, 94.50°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WTroy Limestone — 18.07°N, 76.75°WTroy Limestone — 18.32°N, 77.13°WGatuncillo — 9.15°N, 79.73°WCeru Mainsjie — 12.11°N, 68.81°WRichmond — 18.37°N, 76.90°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WInglis Limestone — 29.24°N, 82.71°WAvon Park Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°W

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The named rock units Dirocerithium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dirocerithium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Dirocerithium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

578 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Dirocerithium, 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

5 references

Each of the 24 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. 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 Dirocerithium

Source
GBIF
Credit
Zachos, Louis
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCerithiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodring and Stenzel 1959