Clypeomorus

Clypeomorus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cerithiinae of the family Cerithiidae.

Clypeomorus

Lozouet Pierre · 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
CerithiinaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 48 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 20 of 48 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

48 occurrences of Clypeomorus 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

48 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

14 formations

Nagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°EWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 158.10°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°ECabatuan — 10.86°N, 122.50°EDampier Limestone — 25.53°S, 113.48°EHerschell Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.52°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°EUpper Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°EMariana Limestone — 13.45°N, 144.78°ENdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°ENakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°E

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The named rock units Clypeomorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clypeomorus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Clypeomorus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

609 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Clypeomorus, 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

21 references

Each of the 48 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. 9 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 Clypeomorus

Credit
Lozouet Pierre
Licence
CC BY 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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What may have been alongside itCerithiinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jousseaume 1888