Neptunea

Neptunea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neptuneinae of the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Neptunea

Jan Delsing · 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
NeptuneinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 258 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 258 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 258 occurrencesEocene — about 23 of 258 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 32 of 258 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 44 of 258 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 53 of 258 occurrencesPleistocene — about 85 of 258 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 6 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 8 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 8 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 12 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 9 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 14 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 8 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 17 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 22 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 126 occurrences110.1 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

258 occurrences of Neptunea 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

258 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

76 formations

Timms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.77°N, 118.30°WWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°WTachilni — 54.98°N, 162.85°WTachilni — 54.92°N, 163.87°WTachilni — 54.79°N, 163.36°WTachilni — 54.97°N, 163.17°WTachilni — 54.85°N, 163.41°WKeasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 45.72°N, 123.20°WKeasey — 45.74°N, 123.27°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.30°N, 119.28°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.38°N, 118.61°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WTentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°EShitakara — 42.98°N, 144.38°EShitakara — 43.25°N, 144.08°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.81°N, 118.37°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°ETomioka — 42.77°N, 143.02°EWildcat — 40.64°N, 124.31°WGubik — 70.45°N, 150.36°WGubik — 69.99°N, 151.62°WGubik — 70.07°N, 151.39°WLincoln Creek — 46.74°N, 123.03°WLincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.48°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WOmagari — 42.83°N, 143.67°EEmpire — 43.39°N, 124.28°WEmpire — 42.84°N, 124.56°WLillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.77°N, 118.31°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.73°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.05°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WRateginskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.61°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.93°W

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The named rock units Neptunea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neptunea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Neptunea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,480 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 149 sites for Neptunea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

93 references

Each of the 258 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. 81 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 content1

Picture of Neptunea

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Röding 1798)