Cerithioides incomptum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CerithioidesPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cerithioides incomptum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
- Lucas Formation · Detroit River Group1
- Lucas Formation · Detroit River Group1
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The named rock units Cerithioides incomptum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cerithioides incomptum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cerithioides incomptum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Bicarina petilitornata2 sites
- Crenulazona angulata2 sites
- Hormotomina penduliobesa2 sites
- Murchisonia akidota2 sites
- Murchisonia anderdoniae2 sites
- Murchisonia sibleyensis2 sites
- Nodonema granulatum2 sites
- Serpulospira diversiformis2 sites
- Turbonitella trunculinoda2 sites
- Copidocatomus collarus1 site
- Elasmonema corrugata1 site
- Euryzone latitornata1 site
- Euryzone pharkidopyndax1 site
- Mesocoelia obstipisutura1 site
- Murchisonia deludisubzona1 site
- Murchisonia gracilicrista1 site
- Omphalocirrus1 site
- Pagodea falcatinoda1 site
- Palaeozygopleura joani1 site
- Palaeozygopleura sibleyensis1 site
- Stenoloron fasciata1 site
- Tropidodiscus compticarinatus1 site
- Tropidodiscus cultricarinatus1 site
- Tylozone commensurata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cerithioides incomptum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Cerithioides incomptum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cerithioides incomptum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cerithioides incomptum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCerithioides through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linsley 1968