Schwartziella catesbyana
Schwartziella catesbyana, common name Catesby's risso, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Zebinidae.

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
- SchwartziellaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Rissooidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rissooidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Rissooidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Schwartziella catesbyana 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
9 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Schwartziella catesbyana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schwartziella catesbyana and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Schwartziella catesbyana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
550 taxa- Calliostoma5 sites
- Cerithium5 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi4 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus4 sites
- Bulla striata4 sites
- Busycon contrarium4 sites
- Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum4 sites
- Chione cancellata4 sites
- Conus jaspideus4 sites
- Crassinella lunulata4 sites
- Crepidula maculosa4 sites
- Crepidula plana4 sites
- Diodora cayenensis4 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans4 sites
- Epitonium4 sites
- Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa4 sites
- Mulinia lateralis4 sites
- Nassarius vibex4 sites
- Neoterebra dislocata4 sites
- Neverita duplicatus4 sites
- Nuculana acuta4 sites
- Olivella mutica4 sites
- Parastarte triquetra4 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Schwartziella catesbyana, 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
5 references- Moluscos de la Formación Agueguexquite (Plioceno inferior) de Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México3
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida2
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida2
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida1
Each of the 9 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 Schwartziella catesbyana
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Schwartziella catesbyana 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 itSchwartziella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1842)