Ceritella
Searched as Ceritella tenuiplicata vadaszi. The Paleobiology Database treats Ceritella as the accepted name.
via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. 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
- CeritellidaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ceritella on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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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.
Ceritella and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ceritella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
230 taxa- Neridomus7 sites
- Protocardia7 sites
- Gastropoda6 sites
- Procerithium6 sites
- Nerinella5 sites
- Nicaniella5 sites
- Ampullina4 sites
- Dicroloma4 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus4 sites
- Pholadomya4 sites
- Protocardia stricklandi4 sites
- Pseudomelania4 sites
- Pseudotrapezium4 sites
- Pteroperna4 sites
- Rostrocorbula ibbetsoni4 sites
- Acteonina3 sites
- Anisocardia (Antiquicyprina) loweana3 sites
- Arcomytilus3 sites
- Caestocorbula3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Eomiodon3 sites
- Globularia3 sites
- Heterodonta3 sites
- Lycettia3 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Ceritella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ceritella 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 itCeritellidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morris and Lycett 1851