Monoplex parthenopeus

Monoplex parthenopeus, the giant triton or giant hairy triton, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae. It preys on other molluscs.

Monoplex parthenopeus

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MonoplexPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 26 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 26 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 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Monoplex parthenopeus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

26 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

16 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WAgueguexquite — 18.15°N, 94.42°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.52°N, 71.28°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WTamiami — 27.14°N, 80.85°WMao — 19.67°N, 71.40°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WTuira — 8.46°N, 77.70°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.86°WTortuga — 10.82°N, 64.18°WSabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°E

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The named rock units Monoplex parthenopeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monoplex parthenopeus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Monoplex parthenopeus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Monoplex parthenopeus, 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

6 references

Each of the 26 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 content2

Picture of Monoplex parthenopeus

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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 itMonoplex through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Salis Marschlins 1793)