Malea ringens

Malea ringens, common name the grinning tun, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.

Malea ringens

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MaleaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Tonnidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tonnidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Tonnidae
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 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 73 occurrencesMiocene — about 36 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 73 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Malea ringens 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

73 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

21 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.41°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WTuira — 8.22°N, 77.58°WTuira — 8.46°N, 77.70°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WArmuelles — 8.27°N, 82.87°WArmuelles — 8.27°N, 81.97°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WMancora Tablazo — 4.58°S, 81.27°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WPenita — 8.00°N, 82.97°WLimónes — 10.00°N, 83.22°WOnzole — 0.95°N, 79.74°WRio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WValiente — 9.21°N, 82.11°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WMontezuma — 9.65°N, 85.07°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°W

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The named rock units Malea ringens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Malea ringens and its relatives

Miocene

Where Malea ringens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

558 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Malea ringens, 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

12 references

Each of the 73 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 content2

Picture of Malea ringens

Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
videogreg
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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. (Swainson 1822)