Purpuroidea cerithiformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PurpuroideaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Littorinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Littorinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Littorinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Purpuroidea cerithiformis on record, most of them in the Late 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- Late 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
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The named rock units Purpuroidea cerithiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Purpuroidea cerithiformis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Purpuroidea cerithiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
269 taxa- Coelostylina conica2 sites
- Amauropsis subhybrida1 site
- Angularia loxonemoides1 site
- Anomphalus helicoides1 site
- Atorcula canalifera1 site
- Bandelastraea damon1 site
- Brochidium cingulatum1 site
- Brochidium pustulosum1 site
- Camponaxis beneckei1 site
- Camponaxis lateplicata1 site
- Camponaxis subcompressa1 site
- Cassianopsis armata1 site
- Cassianopsis decussata1 site
- Cassianopsis ornata1 site
- Cheilotomona blumi1 site
- Chilocyclus carinatus1 site
- Coelostylina1 site
- Coelostylina (Gradiella) fedaiana1 site
- Coelostylina (Gradiella) sturi1 site
- Coelostylina (Pseudochrysalis) stotteri1 site
- Coelostylina cochlea1 site
- Coelostylina crassa1 site
- Coelostylina griesbachi1 site
- Coelostylina hylas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Purpuroidea cerithiformis, 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- Diversity and palaeoecology of a highly diverse Late Triassic marine biota from the Cassian Formation of north Italy1
- Triassische Megalodontaceae - Entwicklung, Stratigraphie und Palaontologie1
- Die Gastropoden der Schichten von St. Cassian der südalpinen Trias. III. Theil1
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
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No picture of Purpuroidea cerithiformis 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 Purpuroidea cerithiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Purpuroidea cerithiformis 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 itPurpuroidea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kittl 1894