Cosmocerithium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EumetulinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Triphoroidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Triphoroidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Triphoroidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 161.5 Mya.
24 occurrences of Cosmocerithium on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
24 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
6 formations
- Chari Formation2
- Calcaire de Caen Formation1
- Goradongar Formation1
- Tataouine Formation1
- Hierlatz Limestone Formation1
- Stonesfield Slate Formation · Great Oolite Group1
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The named rock units Cosmocerithium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cosmocerithium and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Cosmocerithium and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
235 taxa- Bralitzia11 sites
- Laevidentalium11 sites
- Mathildidae11 sites
- Nuculanidae11 sites
- Corbulidae10 sites
- Cryptaulax10 sites
- Sinuarbullina10 sites
- Achistrum8 sites
- Crinoidea8 sites
- Echinoidea8 sites
- Dentalium7 sites
- Eudaronia pusilla7 sites
- Astartidae6 sites
- Asteroidea6 sites
- Bivalvia6 sites
- Ophiuroidea6 sites
- Calclamna5 sites
- Oxytomidae5 sites
- Priscopedatus5 sites
- Sulcoactaeon5 sites
- Theelia5 sites
- Parallelodontidae4 sites
- Plagioglypta4 sites
- Trigoniidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Cosmocerithium, 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
8 references- Faunal dynamics of Gastropods in the Bathoninan (Middle Jurrasic) ore-bearing clays at Gnaszyn, Krakow-Silesia Homocline, Poland12
- The evolution of conch ontogeny in Mesozoic open sea gastropods4
- Unpublished data from Kachchh3
- Lower and Middle Jurassic Gastropods from the Bakony Mountains (Hungary) Part V. Supplement to Archaeogastropoda; Caenogastropoda1
- Gasteropodes Jurassiques du Sud-Est Tunisien [Jurassic gastropods from SE Tunisia]1
- The Stratigraphical Palaeontology, ammonites excluded, of the Stowell Park borehole1
- Les recifs bathoniens de Normandie1
- Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez1
Each of the 24 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
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No picture of Cosmocerithium 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 Cosmocerithium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cosmocerithium 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 itEumetulinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1906