Kurtziella cerina

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- KurtziellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Kurtziella cerina 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
13 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Kurtziella cerina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kurtziella cerina and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Kurtziella cerina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
218 taxa- Acteocina canaliculata3 sites
- Angulus texanus3 sites
- Anomia simplex3 sites
- Barnea truncata3 sites
- Busycon carica3 sites
- Busycotypus canaliculatus3 sites
- Crassinella lunulata3 sites
- Crassostrea virginica3 sites
- Crepidula convexa3 sites
- Crepidula fornicata3 sites
- Crepidula plana3 sites
- Dinocardium robustum3 sites
- Divalinga quadrisulcata3 sites
- Ensis directus3 sites
- Eontia ponderosa3 sites
- Eupleura caudata3 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis3 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima3 sites
- Petricolaria pholadiformis3 sites
- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa2 sites
- Argopecten gibbus2 sites
- Astyris lunata2 sites
- Atractodon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Kurtziella cerina, 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
4 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America9
- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia2
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South Carolina1
Each of the 13 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
Media content1

Picture of Kurtziella cerina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Kurtziella cerina 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 itKurtziella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kurtz and Stimpson 1851)