Clypeomorus petrosum
No picture of Clypeomorus petrosum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Clypeomorus petrosum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClypeomorusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Clypeomorus petrosum 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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.
Clypeomorus petrosum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Clypeomorus petrosum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Barbatia1 site
- Conus generalis1 site
- Erosaria turdus1 site
- Mauritia arabica1 site
- Mesodesma1 site
- Naria erosa1 site
- Spondylus candidus1 site
- Strigatella1 site
- Strombus1 site
- Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus1 site
- Strombus (Labiostrombus)1 site
- Tellina remies1 site
- Tellina rugosa1 site
- Terebralia palustris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Clypeomorus petrosum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Fossiles Néogénes et Quaternaires des Nouvelles-Hébrides1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Clypeomorus petrosum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Clypeomorus petrosum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Clypeomorus petrosum was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itClypeomorus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1828)