Monetaria annulus
Monetaria annulus, common name the ring cowrie, ring top cowrie, or gold ring cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonetariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Monetaria annulus 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Monetaria annulus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Monetaria annulus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
350 taxa- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata3 sites
- Tridacna (Chametrachea) squamosa3 sites
- Acropora2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca2 sites
- Chicoreus2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Circe corrugata2 sites
- Codakia tigerina2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Conus arenatus2 sites
- Conus textile2 sites
- Diodora ruppelli2 sites
- Drupa2 sites
- Engina2 sites
- Glycymeris pectunculus2 sites
- Latirus2 sites
- Lioconcha (Lioconcha) ornata2 sites
- Luria isabella2 sites
- Lyncina carneola2 sites
- Naria erosa2 sites
- Natica marochiensis2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Palmadusta clandestina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Monetaria annulus, 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- Facies pattern and molluscan fauna of the Late Pleistocene raised coral reef of Rabigh area, Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia1
- Cenozoic Molluscs and Echinoids of Barrow Island, Western Australia1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
- Mollusken aus posttertiären Schichten von Celebes1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Monetaria annulus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Copyrighted free use
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Monetaria annulus 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMonetaria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)