Neritina ortoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeritinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Neritidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neritidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neritidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Neritina ortoni on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Neritina ortoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neritina ortoni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Neritina ortoni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Ampullariidae1 site
- Diplodon longulus1 site
- Neritina elephantina1 site
- Pachydon1 site
- Pachydon cuneatus1 site
- Pachydon obliquus1 site
- Pachydon tenuis1 site
- Pyrgophorus1 site
- Sioliella bella1 site
- Toxosoma carinatum1 site
- Toxosoma globosum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Neritina ortoni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach 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
Media content1

Picture of Neritina ortoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neritina ortoni was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itNeritina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1871