Cerithioidea

The Cerithioidea is a superfamily of marine, brackish water and freshwater gastropod containing more than 200 genera. The Cerithioidea are included unassigned in the subclass Caenogastropoda. The original name of this superfamily was Cerithiacea, in keeping with common superfamily endings at the time.

Cerithioidea

Christoph Kühne · CC BY 2.0 · 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
CaenogastropodaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 308 million years on record.

The record covers at least 308.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 313.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 11 of 12000 occurrencesPermian — about 11 of 12000 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 12000 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 67 of 12000 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 89 of 12000 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 133 of 12000 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 70 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 343 of 12000 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1635 of 12000 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1003 of 12000 occurrencesEocene — about 2470 of 12000 occurrencesOligocene — about 912 of 12000 occurrencesMiocene — about 3260 of 12000 occurrencesPliocene — about 1011 of 12000 occurrencesPleistocene — about 899 of 12000 occurrences320–309 Mya — about 5 occurrences309–299 Mya — about 6 occurrences299–288 Mya — about 2 occurrences288–277 Mya — about 4 occurrences277–267 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–256 Mya — about 4 occurrences245–235 Mya — about 28 occurrences235–224 Mya — about 20 occurrences224–213 Mya — about 6 occurrences213–203 Mya — about 15 occurrences203–192 Mya — about 35 occurrences192–181 Mya — about 51 occurrences181–171 Mya — about 10 occurrences171–160 Mya — about 128 occurrences160–149 Mya — about 39 occurrences149–139 Mya — about 33 occurrences139–128 Mya — about 80 occurrences128–117 Mya — about 76 occurrences117–107 Mya — about 106 occurrences107–96 Mya — about 227 occurrences96–85 Mya — about 107 occurrences85–75 Mya — about 239 occurrences75–64 Mya — about 1358 occurrences64–53 Mya — about 1048 occurrences53–43 Mya — about 934 occurrences43–32 Mya — about 1449 occurrences32–21 Mya — about 950 occurrences21–11 Mya — about 2154 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 2882 occurrences308.9 Mya11.7 ka320 Mya0 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Cerithioidea on record. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 949 formations

Castilletes — 11.85°N, 71.33°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.97°N, 71.29°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.36°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.50°N, 88.94°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 34.24°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.91°N, 88.51°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.49°N, 88.10°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.61°N, 88.65°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 90.00°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.54°N, 84.91°WChipola — 30.44°N, 84.28°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.97°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.12°N, 80.33°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 31.17°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.00°N, 97.60°WKincaid — 31.52°N, 96.53°WKincaid — 31.53°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 32.98°N, 95.93°WKincaid — 32.43°N, 96.22°WKincaid — 31.30°N, 96.88°WKincaid — 30.10°N, 97.30°WKincaid — 29.38°N, 99.02°WKincaid — 32.58°N, 96.30°WKincaid — 32.13°N, 87.40°WKincaid — 29.16°N, 99.57°WKincaid — 28.71°N, 100.50°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 32.58°N, 96.18°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 34.63°N, 92.44°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 31.31°N, 96.63°WKincaid — 33.14°N, 96.11°WKincaid — 29.80°N, 97.65°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 28.53°N, 100.23°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 98.99°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.31°N, 86.48°WMoodys Branch — 31.55°N, 87.58°WMoodys Branch — 31.51°N, 87.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.40°N, 93.71°WMoodys Branch — 32.00°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.39°N, 92.67°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 35.01°N, 90.79°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WWoodbine — 31.95°N, 97.32°WWoodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.84°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.46°WWoodbine — 33.62°N, 96.61°WWoodbine — 32.35°N, 97.39°WWoodbine — 32.93°N, 97.25°WWoodbine — 32.74°N, 97.11°WWoodbine — 32.56°N, 97.14°WWoodbine — 33.07°N, 97.13°WWoodbine — 33.05°N, 96.99°WWoodbine — 33.76°N, 96.54°WWoodbine — 33.69°N, 96.39°WWoodbine — 33.73°N, 96.77°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.30°WWoodbine — 33.46°N, 96.27°WWoodbine — 33.60°N, 96.37°WWoodbine — 33.86°N, 95.25°WRipley — 31.79°N, 85.13°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 34.25°N, 90.00°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°ECaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.98°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.76°N, 96.28°WCorsicana Marl — 32.59°N, 96.32°WCorsicana Marl — 32.22°N, 96.31°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.58°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.52°N, 96.58°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.74°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.75°WCorsicana Marl — 31.12°N, 96.82°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WCorsicana Marl — 30.19°N, 97.61°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.62°N, 98.06°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.04°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WCorsicana Marl — 29.48°N, 98.81°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.87°N, 88.32°WLisbon — 31.70°N, 88.28°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.02°N, 85.85°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WEscondido — 29.59°N, 98.07°WEscondido — 29.34°N, 98.89°WEscondido — 29.29°N, 98.97°WEscondido — 29.38°N, 99.00°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.24°N, 99.23°WEscondido — 29.25°N, 99.24°WEscondido — 29.23°N, 99.47°WEscondido — 29.10°N, 99.86°WEscondido — 29.08°N, 100.00°WEscondido — 29.06°N, 100.06°WEscondido — 29.03°N, 100.25°WEscondido — 28.87°N, 100.16°WEscondido — 28.96°N, 100.22°WEscondido — 28.88°N, 100.26°WEscondido — 28.72°N, 100.47°WEscondido — 28.71°N, 100.71°WEscondido — 28.65°N, 100.43°WEscondido — 28.59°N, 100.40°WEscondido — 28.55°N, 100.33°WEscondido — 28.52°N, 100.31°WEscondido — 28.60°N, 100.25°WEscondido — 28.61°N, 100.14°WEscondido — 28.26°N, 100.27°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.85°N, 88.25°WCook Mountain — 31.82°N, 88.09°WCook Mountain — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WCook Mountain — 28.92°N, 98.55°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCook Mountain — 31.27°N, 95.61°WCook Mountain — 30.36°N, 96.82°WCook Mountain — 31.40°N, 93.71°WCook Mountain — 32.79°N, 93.06°WCook Mountain — 30.65°N, 96.32°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.33°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.32°N, 95.46°WCook Mountain — 32.62°N, 93.29°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 26.91°N, 99.27°WClayton — 31.83°N, 86.62°WClayton — 31.90°N, 86.88°WClayton — 30.71°N, 84.86°WClayton — 31.90°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.29°WClayton — 32.12°N, 87.26°WClayton — 31.89°N, 84.80°WClayton — 31.71°N, 85.61°WClayton — 31.93°N, 86.68°WClayton — 31.72°N, 86.26°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.98°N, 87.22°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°WClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WClayton — 31.53°N, 86.98°WClayton — 31.87°N, 85.43°WClayton — 32.13°N, 87.40°WClayton — 34.73°N, 88.95°WClayton — 34.25°N, 89.00°WClayton — 32.07°N, 84.54°WClayton — 31.61°N, 85.05°WClayton — 32.31°N, 84.03°WClayton — 35.06°N, 88.89°WClayton — 31.22°N, 96.91°WClayton — 33.70°N, 80.21°WClayton — 33.74°N, 80.46°WClayton — 33.60°N, 79.85°WClayton — 35.47°N, 91.41°WClayton — 34.65°N, 92.43°WClayton — 34.75°N, 92.29°WClayton — 35.42°N, 91.46°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 32.68°N, 83.42°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.93°N, 82.44°WArcadia — 27.82°N, 82.47°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 27.90°N, 81.84°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WArcadia — 28.24°N, 82.72°WArcadia — 29.25°N, 82.17°WArcadia — 30.48°N, 84.02°WArcadia — 30.36°N, 83.99°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WArcadia — 30.30°N, 84.28°WArcadia — 30.24°N, 84.23°WArcadia — 30.15°N, 84.37°WArcadia — 30.30°N, 84.20°WArcadia — 30.62°N, 84.91°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WArcadia — 30.49°N, 85.17°WArcadia — 30.77°N, 84.82°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.83°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 32.08°N, 88.22°WTuscahoma — 31.33°N, 85.58°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.95°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 32.06°N, 88.11°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.40°N, 93.71°WTuscahoma — 31.74°N, 93.40°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 31.93°N, 87.02°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.13°WPorters Creek — 32.20°N, 87.76°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.57°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WPorters Creek — 31.02°N, 87.43°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WPorters Creek — 32.13°N, 87.40°WPorters Creek — 32.24°N, 84.31°WPorters Creek — 31.22°N, 96.91°WPorters Creek — 32.44°N, 96.23°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°W

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The named rock units Cerithioidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 925 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,754 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,478 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 922 sites for Cerithioidea, and this reads 240 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

at least 1,018 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,006 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 Cerithioidea

Credit
Christoph Kühne
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Férussac 1819