Cerithiscala
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpitoniidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
10 occurrences of Cerithiscala on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Lellinge Greensand Formation4
- Danian Limestone Formation3
- London Clay Formation1
- Agatdal Formation1
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Cerithiscala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cerithiscala and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Cerithiscala and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
568 taxa- Cerithiella7 sites
- Turricula7 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa)6 sites
- Acrocoelum6 sites
- Cerithiopsis6 sites
- Exilia6 sites
- Gilbertina6 sites
- Metacerithium6 sites
- Odostomia6 sites
- Sveltella6 sites
- Admetula5 sites
- Arcopsis5 sites
- Cucullaea5 sites
- Cuspidaria5 sites
- Cylichna5 sites
- Epitonium (Acrilla)5 sites
- Epitonium (Coniscala)5 sites
- Gemmula5 sites
- Glycymeris5 sites
- Haustator5 sites
- Lima5 sites
- Naticidae5 sites
- Nucula5 sites
- Nuculana5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cerithiscala, 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
5 references- The Selandian (Paleocene) mollusc fauna from Copenhagen, Denmark: the Poul Harder 1920 collection4
- A catalogue of Danian gastropods from the Baunekule facies, Faxe Formation, Denmark3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- An outcrop of the Miramar Crinoid Bed (Lower Eocene: London Clay, Division B) at Elmley Hills, Isle of Sheppey, Kent1
- Paleocene gastropods from Nûgssuaq, West Greenland1
Each of the 10 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. 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 content0
No picture of Cerithiscala 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 Cerithiscala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cerithiscala 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 itEpitoniidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Boury 1887