Nerita conoidea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeritaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Neritidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neritidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neritidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nerita conoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Nerita conoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nerita conoidea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Nerita conoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Ampullaria acuta1 site
- Ancilla olivula1 site
- Bayania lactea1 site
- Cerithium clavatulatum1 site
- Cerithium hexagonum1 site
- Cerithium thiara1 site
- Cerithium tuberculosum1 site
- Cerithium vittatum1 site
- Cimomia imperialis1 site
- Conilithes antidiluvianus1 site
- Conus turritus1 site
- Delphinula lima1 site
- Eopsephaea costaria1 site
- Fusus heptagonus1 site
- Haustator imbricataria1 site
- Murex cingulatus1 site
- Natica labellata1 site
- Plejona musicalis1 site
- Pyrula laevigata1 site
- Rostellaria macroptera1 site
- Serratocerithium serratum1 site
- Sycostoma bulbiforme1 site
- Voluta crenulata1 site
- Voluta lyra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nerita conoidea, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Nerita conoidea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nerita conoidea 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 itNerita through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1804