Cerithiopsidae

Cerithiopsidae is a family of very small sea snails in the informal group Ptenoglossa. Members of this family are known as cerithiopsids.

Cerithiopsidae

A. Cecalupo · 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
TriphoroideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 613 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 34 of 613 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 74 of 613 occurrencesEocene — about 92 of 613 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 613 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 106 of 613 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 85 of 613 occurrencesPleistocene — about 181 of 613 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–111 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 5 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 9 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 9 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 24 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 40 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 17 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 11 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 12 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 17 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 29 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 21 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 8 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 10 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 17 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 29 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 46 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 16 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 28 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 256 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

613 occurrences of Cerithiopsidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

613 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

145 formations

Danian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ETalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WTalparo — 10.63°N, 61.28°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WOrtovero Clay — 44.10°N, 8.23°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.55°N, 110.48°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°EProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°ELlajas — 34.31°N, 118.69°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°W

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The named rock units Cerithiopsidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 121 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 137 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cerithiopsidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cerithiopsidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

4,138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 271 sites for Cerithiopsidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

178 references

Each of the 613 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. 166 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 Cerithiopsidae

Credit
A. Cecalupo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
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

Licence
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. Adams and Adams 1853