Genota

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BorsoniidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
38 occurrences of Genota on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
38 occurrencesThese 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
- Termofourà Formation5
- Baldissero Formation3
- Earnley Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- Falun de Saucats Formation1
- Berada Formation1
- Marna di Possagno Formation1
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The named rock units Genota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Genota and its relatives
MioceneWhere Genota and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,256 taxa- Roxania21 sites
- Nassarius20 sites
- Limopsis19 sites
- Turritella19 sites
- Varicorbula gibba19 sites
- Amalda obsoleta18 sites
- Asthenotoma18 sites
- Bittium spina18 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima18 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita18 sites
- Mitrella18 sites
- Ringicula buccinea18 sites
- Syrnola18 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella18 sites
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)17 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata17 sites
- Babylonella17 sites
- Bathytoma17 sites
- Conus (Conolithes)17 sites
- Cylichna (Cylichna)17 sites
- Dentalium (Pseudantilis)17 sites
- Fusiturris17 sites
- Gemmula (Gemmula)17 sites
- Inquisitor17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Genota, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
16 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae16
- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement8
- Discovery of Miocene whale fall fauna from India: Taphonomy and palaeoecology of a vertebrate-invertebrate assemblage1
- New paleoenvironmental insights on the Miocene condensed phosphatic layer of Salento (southern Italy) unlocked by the coral‑mollusc fossil archive1
- Badenian gastropods from the collections of the Mure County Museum1
- Middle Ottnangian (late Burdigalian) mollusks from the Rott Valley (SE Germany): the ultimate marine fauna of the Western Paratethys1
- A late Burdigalian bathyal mollusc fauna from the Vienna Basin (Slovakia)1
- Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen)1
- Discovery of two teeth of Squalodon (Cetacea Odontoceti) in the Burdigalian of SW France (Martillac, Leognan). Comments about the Squalodon from Aquitaine Basin, the paleoecology of the outcrops, and the type species of the genus1
- Stratigraphic interpretation of the Neogene marine-continental record in the Maaseik well (49W0220) in the Roer Valley Graben, NE Belgium1
- Révision des Gastropoda (Mollusca) du stratotype de L'Aquitanien (Miocéne inf.) site de Saucats "Lariey", Gironde, France1
- Skwarko, 19941
Each of the 38 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. 4 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 content1

Picture of Genota
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Genota 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.
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What may have been alongside itBorsoniidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1858)