Metacerithium paleocaenicum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetacerithiumPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Metacerithium paleocaenicum on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Metacerithium paleocaenicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metacerithium paleocaenicum and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Metacerithium paleocaenicum and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Acirsa2 sites
- Acirsa (Acirsella)2 sites
- Acmaea simplex2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Angaria2 sites
- Arrhoges2 sites
- Athleta2 sites
- Bathytoma2 sites
- Batillaria2 sites
- Benoistia2 sites
- Boutillieria2 sites
- Calliomphalus2 sites
- Calyptraea2 sites
- Cerithiopsis2 sites
- Clavilithes2 sites
- Cominella supracostata2 sites
- Cornetia2 sites
- Cypraea2 sites
- Emarginula2 sites
- Eriptycha2 sites
- Fedaiella elongata2 sites
- Lyncina amygdalina2 sites
- Melanatria2 sites
- Melanopsis ancillaroides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Metacerithium paleocaenicum, 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- Mollusca of the Babica Clays (Paleocene) of the Middle Carpathians. Pt. I. Gastropoda2
- Geologische und paläontologische Bearbeitung der Kreide und des Tertiärs im östlichen Rupertiwinkel, nördlich von Salzburg [Geological and paleontological work on the Cretaceous and Tertiary of the eastern Ruperti region, north of Salzburg]1
Each of the 3 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 Metacerithium paleocaenicum 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 Metacerithium paleocaenicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metacerithium paleocaenicum 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 itMetacerithium through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traub 1938