Tenuicerithium

Tenuicerithium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PleisotrochidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Campaniloidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Campaniloidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Campaniloidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 22 of 28 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences61.66 Mya20.45 Mya67 Mya15 Mya

28 occurrences of Tenuicerithium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

28 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

3 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°ESables de Cresnes — 49.20°N, 2.02°E

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The named rock units Tenuicerithium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tenuicerithium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tenuicerithium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

471 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Tenuicerithium, 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

Each of the 28 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 Tenuicerithium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tenuicerithium 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.

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

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1896