Neritina virginea

Rafael R.N. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- 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 least 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
22 occurrences of Neritina virginea on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
22 occurrences- Miocene18%
- Pliocene36%
- Pleistocene32%
- Holocene14%
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
9 formations
- Talparo Formation4
- Springvale Formation3
- Morne l'Enfer Formation3
- New Orleans Barrier Trend Formation1
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group1
- Mount Hope Formation1
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The named rock units Neritina virginea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neritina virginea and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Neritina virginea and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
409 taxa- Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula)8 sites
- Eulima8 sites
- Lucinisca roigi8 sites
- Naticarius canrena8 sites
- Parvanachis obesa8 sites
- Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia)8 sites
- Anomia simplex7 sites
- Argopecten7 sites
- Cerithium7 sites
- Dentalium (Dentalium)7 sites
- Pitar (Lamelliconcha)7 sites
- Saccella7 sites
- Anadara6 sites
- Calyptraea centralis6 sites
- Chione cancellata6 sites
- Lirophora6 sites
- Abra aequalis5 sites
- Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) olssoni5 sites
- Chione veatchiana5 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinia)5 sites
- Lunarca billingsiana5 sites
- Noetia (Eontia) centrota5 sites
- Noetia sheldoniana5 sites
- Tellina (Eurytellina)5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Neritina virginea, 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
13 references- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad10
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- The Quaternary geological history of the Santa Catarina southeastern region (Brazil)1
- The benthic mollusk faunas of two contrasting reef paleosubenvironments: Falmouth Formation (late Pleistocene, last interglacial), Jamaica1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Géologie générale et régionale de la République D'Haiti1
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.1
- Pleistocene mollusks from Margarita Island, Venezuela1
- Pleistocene Mollusks from western Cuba1
- Geology of the Republic of Haiti1
Each of the 22 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. 1 further reference is 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 Neritina virginea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Rafael R.N.
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neritina virginea 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)