Nerita undata
Nerita undata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae.SynonymsNerita undata quadricolor Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Nerita quadricolor Gmelin, 1791 Nerita undata var. micronesica E. von Martens, 1887: synonym of Nerita maura Récluz, 1842
H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
- NeritaPBDB
- 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 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Nerita undata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Nerita undata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Nerita undata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus4 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata3 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Natica (Natica) mamilla2 sites
- Pinctada2 sites
- Terebralia palustris2 sites
- Tridacna2 sites
- Tritia2 sites
- Trochus dentatus2 sites
- Turbo (Marmarostoma) radiatus2 sites
- Acar plicata1 site
- Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca imbricata arabica1 site
- Arca navicularis1 site
- Asaphis deflorata1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata1 site
- Bistolida erythraeensis1 site
- Brechites1 site
- Bulla ampulla1 site
- Cardita variegata1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Cardium rugosum gortanii1 site
- Cerithium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nerita undata, 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
4 references- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]2
- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, introduzione e parte I (gasteropodi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, introduction and part I (gastropods)]2
- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca1
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits1
Each of the 6 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 content2
Picture of Nerita undata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNerita through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758