Neritopsis radula
Neritopsis radula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritopsidae.

Linnaeus, 1758 · CC0 · 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
- NeritopsisPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
26 occurrences of Neritopsis radula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
26 occurrences- Oligocene4%
- Miocene23%
- Pliocene21%
- Pleistocene40%
- Holocene12%
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
6 formations
- Ndalithoni Limestone Formation4
- Palau Limestone Formation1
- Mariana Limestone Formation1
- Tagpochau Limestone Formation1
- Aldabra Limestone Formation1
- Curchia Formation1
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The named rock units Neritopsis radula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neritopsis radula and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Neritopsis radula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
290 taxa- Conus4 sites
- Luria isabella4 sites
- Turbo (Turbo) petholatus4 sites
- Acropora3 sites
- Acropora humilis3 sites
- Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola3 sites
- Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus3 sites
- Hydrolithon onkodes3 sites
- Ipsa childreni3 sites
- Lithophyllum3 sites
- Pocillopora3 sites
- Porites3 sites
- Titanoderma3 sites
- Acar plicata2 sites
- Acropora hyacinthus2 sites
- Acropora robusta2 sites
- Anadara2 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Bulla ampulla2 sites
- Callista2 sites
- Cantharus2 sites
- Caryocorbula cuneata2 sites
- Chama asperella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Neritopsis radula, 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
10 references- Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands8
- Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblages from the coral reefs of the Kenya coast7
- Mass mortality following disturbance in Holocene coral reefs from Papua New Guinea2
- Geology of Lau, Fiji2
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]2
- Badenian gastropods from the collections of the Mure County Museum1
- Commets on the Badenian Fauna (Middle Miocene) from Bahna (Southern Carpathians, Romania)1
- The Oligocene mollusc fauna of the Piedmont Basin (north-western Italy) 1. Scaphopoda and Archaeogastropoda1
- Origins and development of Holocene coral reefs: a revisited model based on reef boreholes in the Seychelles, Indian Ocean1
- Faunal response to the instability of reef habitats: Pleistocene molluscan assemblages of Aldabra Atoll1
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. 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 Neritopsis radula
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neritopsis radula 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.
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.
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What may have been alongside itNeritopsis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)