Agaronia testacea

Agaronia testacea, a species of sea snail with the common name Panama false olive, is a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, which are known collectively as "the olives".

Agaronia testacea

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
AgaroniaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 10 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 17 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–9.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.1–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Agaronia testacea 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

17 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

5 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WPenita — 8.23°N, 82.97°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°W

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The named rock units Agaronia testacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Agaronia testacea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Agaronia testacea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

531 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Agaronia testacea, 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

7 references

Each of the 17 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

Media content1

Picture of Agaronia testacea

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Agaronia testacea 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

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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 itAgaronia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1811)