Metacerithium

Metacerithium

Fedepeche · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
MetacerithiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 23 of 50 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 50 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 24 of 50 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 4 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 7 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 9 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences132.6 Mya59.24 Mya141 Mya54 Mya

50 occurrences of Metacerithium on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

50 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

17 formations

Lellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.09°N, 6.77°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.58°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.93°N, 6.25°EZirc Limestone — 47.08°N, 17.57°ESan Francisquito — 34.62°N, 118.62°WSan Francisquito — 34.42°N, 117.82°WCzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°ESanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.73°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.71°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WDakhla — 25.50°N, 30.50°ELodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°EPanoche — 35.88°N, 120.10°WDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°EKingongo Marls — 10.02°S, 39.65°E

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The named rock units Metacerithium 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.

Metacerithium and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Metacerithium and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,278 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Metacerithium, 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

26 references

Each of the 50 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. 14 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 Metacerithium

Credit
Fedepeche
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Metacerithium 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 itMetacerithiidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1906