Neritaria matercula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeritariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Neritoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neritoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neritoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Neritaria matercula on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
3 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
2 formations
- Trochitenkalk Formation · Muschelkalk Group2
- Erfurt Formation · Keuper Group1
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The named rock units Neritaria matercula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neritaria matercula and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Neritaria matercula and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Astartellopsis triasina2 sites
- Bakevellia costata2 sites
- Coenothyris vulgaris2 sites
- Elegantinia elegans2 sites
- Encrinus liliiformis2 sites
- Entolium discites2 sites
- Hoernesia socialis2 sites
- Lingularia tenuissima2 sites
- Loxonema2 sites
- Microconchus valvatus2 sites
- Miocidaris2 sites
- Myalina2 sites
- Myoconcha2 sites
- Myophoria vulgaris2 sites
- Neoschizodus cardissoides2 sites
- Neoschizodus laevigatus2 sites
- Neoschizodus ovatus2 sites
- Philippiella noetlingi2 sites
- Placunopsis ostracina2 sites
- Plagiostoma striatum2 sites
- Promysidiella eduliformis2 sites
- Schafhaeutlia2 sites
- Terquemia difformis2 sites
- Trachynerita2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Neritaria matercula, 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
3 references- Well-preserved mollusks from the Lower Keuper (Ladinian) of Hohenlohe (southwest Germany)1
- Der Obere Muschelkalk im nordwestlichen Niederhessen1
- Fazies und Fauna des Oberen Muschelkalkes von Willebadessen1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Neritaria matercula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Neritaria matercula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neritaria matercula 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.
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What may have been alongside itNeritaria through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quenstedt 1884)