Praerosaria herosae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PraerosariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Praerosaria herosae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Oligocene100%
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
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The named rock units Praerosaria herosae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Praerosaria herosae and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Praerosaria herosae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Argyrotheca bitnerae2 sites
- Heliconoides hospes2 sites
- Heliconoides linneensis2 sites
- Joania cordata2 sites
- Lacazella mediterranea2 sites
- Megathiris detruncata2 sites
- Ransonia ferruginosa2 sites
- Spoelia2 sites
- Alvania argillensis1 site
- Alvania aturensis1 site
- Alvania discazalorum1 site
- Alvania foraminata1 site
- Alvania sublagouardensis1 site
- Amphithalamus immigrus1 site
- Apogon moyesi1 site
- Argyrotheca cuneata1 site
- Cerithidium plebeium1 site
- Circulus enaulus1 site
- Cirsonella funata1 site
- Clio1 site
- Clupeidarum1 site
- Conger1 site
- Congridarum1 site
- Crassitoniella europaea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Praerosaria herosae, 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 Praerosaria herosae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Praerosaria herosae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPraerosaria through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dolin and Lozouet 2004