Smaragdia viridis

Smaragdia viridis. common name the "emerald nerite" is a species of small, green sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Smaragdia viridis

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
SmaragdiaPBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Neritidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neritidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neritidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 72 of 89 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 89 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 89 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

89 occurrences of Smaragdia viridis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

89 occurrences

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

10 formations

Cercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.17°WCercado — 19.40°N, 70.72°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.28°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WAgueguexquite — 17.58°N, 95.08°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WRio Banano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°E

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The named rock units Smaragdia viridis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Smaragdia viridis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Smaragdia viridis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

930 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Smaragdia viridis, 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

13 references

Each of the 89 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Smaragdia viridis

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Smaragdia viridis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSmaragdia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)