Hemicerithium

Hemicerithium

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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 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 98 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 98 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 98 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 98 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 98 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 60 of 98 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 98 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 98 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 10 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 33 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 19 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–622 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93.9 Mya5.333 Mya102 Mya622 ka

98 occurrences of Hemicerithium on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

98 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

15 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WWoodbine — 33.62°N, 96.61°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°ETubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.43°N, 2.15°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°ESables de Pierrefonds — 49.38°N, 3.00°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°E

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The named rock units Hemicerithium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hemicerithium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hemicerithium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,270 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Hemicerithium, 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

16 references

Each of the 98 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. 4 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 Hemicerithium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hemicerithium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCerithiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1893)