Nerita

Nerita

Hans Hillewaert ( Lycaon ) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
NeritinaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Neritidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neritidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neritidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 264 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 332 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 332 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 332 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 332 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 332 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 332 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 16 of 332 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 332 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 54 of 332 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 332 occurrencesEocene — about 71 of 332 occurrencesOligocene — about 17 of 332 occurrencesMiocene — about 58 of 332 occurrencesPliocene — about 19 of 332 occurrencesPleistocene — about 61 of 332 occurrences272–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–236 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences236–227 Mya — about 2 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–191 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences191–181 Mya — about 1 occurrence181–172 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences172–163 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–154 Mya — about 3 occurrences154–145 Mya — about 13 occurrences145–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–91 Mya — about 22 occurrences91–82 Mya — about 7 occurrences82–73 Mya — about 12 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 12 occurrences64–54 Mya — about 14 occurrences54–45 Mya — about 19 occurrences45–36 Mya — about 44 occurrences36–27 Mya — about 14 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 22 occurrences18–9.1 Mya — about 36 occurrences9.1–0 Mya — about 95 occurrences264.28 Mya11.7 ka272 Mya0 Mya

332 occurrences of Nerita on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

332 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

117 formations

Czarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WWoodbine — 33.69°N, 96.39°WFlournoy — 43.31°N, 123.10°WFlournoy — 43.26°N, 123.03°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.92°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.21°WRedding — 40.67°N, 122.14°WRedding — 40.68°N, 122.20°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.43°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.33°WCastilletes — 11.94°N, 71.32°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EDelmar — 33.16°N, 117.21°WDelmar — 32.93°N, 117.25°WDelmar — 32.92°N, 117.26°WWaimanalo — 21.70°N, 157.98°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.28°N, 157.70°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 157.90°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WNdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°ECook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.52°WSantiago — 33.13°N, 117.22°WSantiago — 33.16°N, 117.21°WSantiago — 33.12°N, 117.25°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WDevonshire — 32.30°N, 64.75°WDevonshire — 32.28°N, 64.77°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WMungo River — 4.49°N, 9.50°E

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The named rock units Nerita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 93 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 108 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nerita and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nerita and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,711 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 210 sites for Nerita, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

157 references

Each of the 332 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. 145 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 content2

Picture of Nerita

Credit
Hans Hillewaert ( Lycaon )
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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What may have been alongside itNeritinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)