Dentarene
Dentarene is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.

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
- LiotiinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Trochoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trochoidea
- 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 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Dentarene on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene47%
- Pliocene3%
- Pleistocene50%
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
- Shimajiri Formation1
- Chinen Formation · Ryukyu Group1
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The named rock units Dentarene 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.
Dentarene and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Dentarene and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Acteon teramachii1 site
- Amalda (Baryspira)1 site
- Ancilla (Turrancilla)1 site
- Architectonica (Solariaxis)1 site
- Arcidae1 site
- Benthovoluta1 site
- Borsonia1 site
- Claviscala1 site
- Collonista1 site
- Cominella (Cominella)1 site
- Compsodrillia1 site
- Daphnella1 site
- Emarginula1 site
- Euchelus (Euchelus) quadricarinatus1 site
- Euchelus (Herpetopoma) instrictus1 site
- Eulima1 site
- Fulgoraria (Saotomea)1 site
- Fusinus1 site
- Leucosyrinx1 site
- Liotina (Dentarene) loculosa1 site
- Loochooia1 site
- Makiyamaia1 site
- Marginella1 site
- Mathilda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dentarene, 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
4 references- Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from Western Pacific Islands3
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Volutidae through Terebridae)2
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits2
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Turritellidae through Strombidae)1
Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Dentarene
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dentarene 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Dentarene”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLiotiinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Iredale 1929)