Charonia

Charonia is a genus of very large sea snail, commonly known as Triton's trumpet or Triton snail. They are marine gastropod mollusks in the monotypic family Charoniidae. They are one of the few natural predators of the crown-of-thorns starfish.

Charonia

Retama · GPL · 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
Also called
tritonPBDB
Sits inside
CymatiinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 103 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 103 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 19 of 103 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 103 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 103 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 31 of 103 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 103 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 103 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 7 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 9 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 8 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 17 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

103 occurrences of Charonia 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

103 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

39 formations

Martinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.61°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WDry Creek Sands — 34.70°S, 138.62°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.97°S, 138.54°EDry Creek Sands — 34.90°S, 138.56°EDry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EDry Creek Sands — 34.88°S, 138.49°EMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WDakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°EByram Marl — 32.32°N, 90.88°WKubota — 37.50°N, 140.00°EMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 110.88°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WLefipan — 43.04°S, 69.33°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°ETepetate — 24.17°N, 110.00°WToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°WFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WPatala — 32.65°N, 71.82°EMalua — 16.25°S, 167.50°EUpper Bhuban — 23.00°N, 93.00°E

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The named rock units Charonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Charonia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Charonia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,813 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Charonia, 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

60 references

Each of the 103 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. 48 further references are 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 content3

Picture of Charonia

Credit
Retama
Licence
GPL
Commercial use
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Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Charonia femorale · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:193277-Mollusca

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
zmmu
Licence
CC Attribution
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gistel 1848