Neritopsis
Searched as Neritopsis bajociensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Neritopsis as the accepted name.
Neritopsis is a genus of sea snails in the subfamily Neritopsinae of the family Neritopsidae.

Linnaeus, 1758 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
- NeritopsinaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Neritopsis on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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 Neritopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neritopsis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Neritopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
2,643 taxa- Linguithyris aspasia15 sites
- Ampullina11 sites
- Gastropoda10 sites
- Arca9 sites
- Barbatia9 sites
- Discohelix excavata9 sites
- Echinoidea9 sites
- Katosira9 sites
- Natica9 sites
- Pleurotomaria9 sites
- Spondylus9 sites
- Tylostoma9 sites
- Angaria8 sites
- Clavilithes8 sites
- Discohelix orbis8 sites
- Emarginula8 sites
- Lima8 sites
- Pecten8 sites
- Protocardia striatula8 sites
- Pteria8 sites
- Venericardia8 sites
- Amberleya (Eucyclus) alpina7 sites
- Apringia paolii7 sites
- Cerithiopsis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Neritopsis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Neritopsis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neritopsis 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Neritopsis”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNeritopsinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grateloup 1832