Monodonta

Monodonta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Monodonta

ふうけ · 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
TrochinaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 39 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 39 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 39 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 39 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 39 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 39 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 39 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 39 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 39 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 39 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences233.6 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Monodonta 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

39 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

9 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ENeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WNicosia — 35.10°N, 33.15°ECalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WSakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°ECassian — 46.62°N, 11.87°EShimo — 35.51°N, 135.51°E

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The named rock units Monodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monodonta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Monodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,286 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Monodonta, 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

19 references

Each of the 39 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. 7 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 content2

Picture of Monodonta

Credit
ふうけ
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTrochinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1799)