Cerithium

Cerithium is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.

Cerithium

Richard Parker · 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
CerithiinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 227 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 1144 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 14 of 1144 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 5 of 1144 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 1144 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 1144 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 46 of 1144 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 97 of 1144 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 26 of 1144 occurrencesEocene — about 227 of 1144 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 77 of 1144 occurrencesMiocene — about 259 of 1144 occurrencesPliocene — about 110 of 1144 occurrencesPleistocene — about 240 of 1144 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence226–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 11 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 5 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 7 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 7 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 9 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 15 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 8 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 9 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 11 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 10 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 19 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 59 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 20 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 44 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 116 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 81 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 57 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 81 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 109 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 455 occurrences227.3 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

1,144 occurrences of Cerithium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1,144 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

248 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.68°S, 47.39°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.41°S, 44.42°WGhazij — 30.16°N, 67.72°EGhazij — 29.95°N, 70.12°EGhazij — 30.42°N, 70.51°Eopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.05°N, 21.80°Eopoka — 51.10°N, 21.80°Eopoka — 51.32°N, 21.92°EFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WFlint River — 32.82°N, 81.62°WNari — 28.00°N, 66.00°ENari — 26.36°N, 67.86°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°ENari — 25.38°N, 67.80°EIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.05°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.12°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 32.90°EArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WArcadia — 30.36°N, 83.99°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WArcadia — 30.30°N, 84.28°WArcadia — 30.62°N, 84.91°WArcadia — 30.49°N, 85.17°WArcadia — 30.77°N, 84.82°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WQom — 31.52°N, 52.74°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°EKubota — 37.50°N, 140.00°ESuwannee Limestone — 28.56°N, 82.39°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.28°N, 83.71°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.36°N, 83.95°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WBelmont — 32.36°N, 64.71°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°W

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The named rock units Cerithium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 224 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 394 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cerithium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cerithium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 511 sites for Cerithium, 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

313 references

Each of the 1,144 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. 299 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Cerithium

Credit
Richard Parker
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Peter Nox
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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. Bruguière 1789