Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Nerita (Theliostyla)PBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Neritidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neritidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neritidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
26 occurrences of Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata 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
26 occurrencesThese 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
9 formations
- Flournoy Formation · Umpqua Group7
- Delmar Formation · La Jolla Group6
- Cowlitz Formation3
- Coldwater Formation2
- Santiago Formation2
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group1
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The named rock units Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
294 taxa- Acutostrea idriaensis11 sites
- Potamides carbonicola11 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana10 sites
- Loxotrema turritum10 sites
- Crommium andersoni9 sites
- Pelecyora aequilateralis9 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa8 sites
- Cuneocorbula torreyensis6 sites
- Anomia mcgoniglensis5 sites
- Cominella eocenica5 sites
- Myrtucina roseburgensis5 sites
- Nerita triangulata oregonensis5 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii5 sites
- Mitra washingtoniana4 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei3 sites
- Bonellitia (Admetula) paucivaricata3 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cooperi3 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis3 sites
- Brachiodontes3 sites
- Bursa washingtoniana3 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi3 sites
- Dentalium stramineum3 sites
- Ficopsis remondii3 sites
- Glycymerita sagittata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata, 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
14 references- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon6
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California4
- Macropaleontology of Eocene marine rocks, upper Sespe Creek area, Ventura County, southern California2
- Middle Eocene mollusks from northern San Diego County, California2
- The Capay Middle Eocene of Northern California2
- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California2
- An Eocene sea turtle from the eastern North Pacific fills a Paleogene gap1
- New Late Cretaceous mytilid and tellinoidean bivalves from California1
- Paleoecological anlaysis of molluscan assemblages from the Middle Eocene Cowlitz Formation, southwestern Washington1
- A Middle Eocene marine molluscan assemblage form the usually nonmarine Friars Formation, San Diego County, California1
- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California1
- Fauna from the Eocene of Washington1
Each of the 26 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. 2 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 Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Pitt
- 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 itNerita (Theliostyla) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1869)