Monalaria
No picture of Monalaria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Monalaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StruthiolariidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Stromboidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Monalaria on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
14 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Tapui Glauconitic Sandstone Formation · Tokarahi Group10
- Waihao Formation2
- Otaio Gorge Sandstone Formation1
- Otaio Limonitic Greensand Formation1
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The named rock units Monalaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Monalaria and its relatives
EoceneWhere Monalaria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Hedecardium (Hedecardium) brunneri4 sites
- Alcithoe (Waihaoia)3 sites
- Amalda (Baryspira)2 sites
- Cubitostrea gudexi2 sites
- Cucullaea2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Magnatica (Spelaenacca)2 sites
- Marama (Hina)2 sites
- Spirocolpus2 sites
- Turia2 sites
- Zeacolpus2 sites
- Athleta1 site
- Austrofusus1 site
- Costacallista hectori1 site
- Cucullaea (Latiarca)1 site
- Cuspidaria1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Dentalium (Laevidentalium)1 site
- Dosinia (Kereia)1 site
- Eopleurotoma1 site
- Eucrassatella1 site
- Falsicolus1 site
- Friginatica1 site
- Gemmula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Monalaria, 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- The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision10
- The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision2
- Early Tertiary Mollusca from Otaio Gorge, South Canterbury1
- The Tertiary geology of the Pareora District, South Canterbury1
Each of the 14 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 content0
No picture of Monalaria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Monalaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itStruthiolariidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1924