Nerineopsis

Nerineopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProcerithiinaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 5 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.4 Mya66 Mya134 Mya60 Mya

5 occurrences of Nerineopsis 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

5 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

3 formations

Schrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 9.90°EFunagawara — 39.05°N, 141.71°EAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Nerineopsis 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.

Nerineopsis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Nerineopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nerineopsis, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 Nerineopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nerineopsis 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itProcerithiinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

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