Procerithium

Procerithium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProcerithiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 157 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 135 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 135 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 135 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 135 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 22 of 135 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 52 of 135 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 56 of 135 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 135 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 135 occurrences270–264 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences264–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–195 Mya — about 2 occurrences195–189 Mya — about 3 occurrences189–184 Mya — about 6 occurrences184–178 Mya — about 9 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 6 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 12 occurrences166–161 Mya — about 38 occurrences161–155 Mya — about 22 occurrences155–149 Mya — about 24 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 9 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences264.28 Mya106.3 Mya270 Mya97 Mya

135 occurrences of Procerithium on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

135 occurrences

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

41 formations

Alcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WOxford Clay — 52.00°N, 1.00°WOxford Clay — 53.50°N, 0.33°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ECalcaire de Hennequeville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EZohar — 30.93°N, 34.98°EOsmington Oolite — 50.60°N, 2.45°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WOsmington Oolite — 50.63°N, 2.37°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.32°N, 0.03°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 48.60°N, 0.63°EOsta Arena — 43.86°S, 69.57°WTataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.73°N, 10.48°EMulanguiñeu — 44.40°S, 70.57°WMulanguiñeu — 44.33°S, 70.34°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WArgile de Villerville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EStonesfield Slate — 51.80°N, 1.88°WUpper Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WQishn — 14.55°N, 48.04°EAlcobaça — 39.32°N, 9.35°WKimmeridge-clay — 51.32°N, 2.23°WWest Walton — 52.18°N, 0.12°ECoral Rag — 51.77°N, 1.25°WKardosret — 47.00°N, 17.00°EHeather — 59.71°N, 1.82°ELincolnshire Limestone — 53.50°N, 0.33°W

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The named rock units Procerithium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procerithium and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Procerithium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

952 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Procerithium, 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

35 references

Each of the 135 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. 23 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 Procerithium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Procerithium 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 itProcerithiidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1902