Cerithiopsis

Cerithiopsis is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cerithiopsidae.

Cerithiopsis

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 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
CerithiopsidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cerithiopsidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiopsidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiopsidae
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 379 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 379 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 49 of 379 occurrencesEocene — about 62 of 379 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 379 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 57 of 379 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 50 of 379 occurrencesPleistocene — about 112 of 379 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 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 11 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 26 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 14 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 8 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 11 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 19 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 14 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 6 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 8 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 35 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 12 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 157 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

379 occurrences of Cerithiopsis 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

379 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

109 formations

Danian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°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°EMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.55°N, 110.48°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°ELlajas — 34.31°N, 118.69°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WOrtovero Clay — 44.10°N, 8.23°EBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WTalparo — 10.63°N, 61.28°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WLillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.43°ELincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.28°N, 104.72°W

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The named rock units Cerithiopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 85 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 98 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cerithiopsis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cerithiopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

4,226 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 182 sites for Cerithiopsis, and this reads all 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

135 references

Each of the 379 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. 123 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 Cerithiopsis

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cerithiopsis 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.

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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What may have been alongside itCerithiopsidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hanley 1849