Glauconia kefersteini
Not Glauconia kefersteini. This is Glauconia kefersteini (Goldfuss, 1844), a relative — both are Cassiopidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CassiopidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 66 Mya.
2 occurrences of Glauconia kefersteini on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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 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.
Glauconia kefersteini and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Glauconia kefersteini and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Actaeon lenzi1 site
- Ampullospira bulbiformis1 site
- Bullina malheiroi1 site
- Cylindrites cordeiroi1 site
- Cylindrites delgadoi1 site
- Leptosalenia sergipensis1 site
- Lithophaga praelonga1 site
- Natica feioi1 site
- Natica lyrata1 site
- Neithea ficalhoi1 site
- Nerita malheiroi1 site
- Pholadomya collombi1 site
- Pholadomya pleuromyaeformis1 site
- Pinna robinaldina1 site
- Pygurus africanus1 site
- Tylostoma pechueli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Glauconia kefersteini, 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- Paläontologische und stratigraphische Ergebnisse der Forschungsreise nach Westserbien 19181
- Matériaux pour l'étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de la province d'Angola1
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
Media content1
Picture of Glauconia kefersteini (Goldfuss, 1844)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Glauconia kefersteini 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCassiopidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1844)