Ceritella

Ceritella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeritellidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 24 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 7 of 24 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences198–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences193–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–165 Mya — about 7 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 4 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 4 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192.9 Mya83.6 Mya202 Mya63 Mya

24 occurrences of Ceritella on record, most of them in the Middle 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

24 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

10 formations

White Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EMoreno — 37.04°N, 120.98°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WSchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 9.90°EZirc Limestone — 47.08°N, 17.57°ECalcare Massiccio — 43.37°N, 12.20°ETwin Creek Limestone — 42.94°N, 110.51°WStonesfield Slate — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Ceritella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceritella and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Ceritella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

230 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Ceritella, 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

14 references

Each of the 24 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. 2 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 Ceritella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCeritellidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morris and Lycett 1851