Argyropeza

Argyropeza is a genus of small deep-sea sea snails in the family Cerithiidae.

Argyropeza

Lardeur A. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
CerithiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–1.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.8–1.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

4 occurrences of Argyropeza on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 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

3 formations

Nakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°EYonabaru — 26.16°N, 127.72°ERa — 18.13°S, 178.43°E

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The named rock units Argyropeza has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Argyropeza, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Argyropeza

Credit
Lardeur A.
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Argyropeza was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCerithiidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Melvill and Standen 1901