Nannamoria
Nannamoria is a small taxonomic genus of small-sized sea snails, predatory marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Amoriinae of the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Indici · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- AmoriinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
18 occurrences of Nannamoria on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
18 occurrencesThese 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
10 formations
- Cameron Inlet Formation5
- Gellibrand Formation4
- Jan Juc Formation2
- Ascot Formation1
- Puebla Formation1
- Fishing Point Marl Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Nannamoria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nannamoria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Nannamoria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Tylospira coronata4 sites
- Ericusa sowerbyi sowerbyi3 sites
- Tylospira3 sites
- Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata3 sites
- Alcithoe (Alcithoe) orphanta2 sites
- Alaba1 site
- Anapella cycladea1 site
- Anomalocardia1 site
- Arcopsis1 site
- Bedeva paivae1 site
- Belloliva1 site
- Bembicium1 site
- Bittium1 site
- Cabestana tabulata tabulata1 site
- Campanile symbolicum1 site
- Cardita crassicosta1 site
- Carditidae1 site
- Cassis fimbriata1 site
- Chioneryx1 site
- Chlamys (Equichlamys) bifrons bifrons1 site
- Clanculus1 site
- Clava (Semivertagus)1 site
- Conus1 site
- Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nannamoria, 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
5 references- Molluscan biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Tertiary of southeastern Australia8
- A revision of the Tertiary Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of south-eastern Australia5
- Revision of southern Australian Cenozoic fossil Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia)3
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia1
- The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia (Part 2)1
Each of the 18 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 content1
Picture of Nannamoria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Indici
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nannamoria 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Nannamoria”
- 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 itAmoriinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1929