Perrona
Perrona is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.

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
- ClavatulidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
43 occurrences of Perrona 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
43 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
- Gavdos Formation4
- Apostoli Formation4
- Baghmara Formation4
- Kama Formation4
- Termofourà Formation3
- Maraldi Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Perrona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Perrona and its relatives
MioceneWhere Perrona and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
898 taxa- Aequipecten14 sites
- Clavatula13 sites
- Nassarius13 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii13 sites
- Xenophora deshayesi13 sites
- Amalda obsoleta11 sites
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)11 sites
- Mitrella11 sites
- Turritella11 sites
- Anachis (Costoanachis)10 sites
- Asthenotoma10 sites
- Bittium spina10 sites
- Cochlis tigrina10 sites
- Euspira helicina10 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita10 sites
- Roxania10 sites
- Sveltia10 sites
- Syrnola10 sites
- Varicorbula gibba10 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella10 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata9 sites
- Babylonella9 sites
- Boreodrillia9 sites
- Calliostoma (Ampullotrochus)9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Perrona, 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
15 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae9
- Biozonation of the Neogene invertebrate megafauna of the Hellenic area8
- Marine und brachyhaline Gastropoden aus dem Karpatium des Korneubuger Beckens und der Kreuzstettener Bucht (Österreich, Untermiozän)6
- Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam4
- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement3
- Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma3
- Discovery of two teeth of Squalodon (Cetacea Odontoceti) in the Burdigalian of SW France (Martillac, Leognan). Comments about the Squalodon from Aquitaine Basin, the paleoecology of the outcrops, and the type species of the genus2
- Badenian gastropods from the collections of the Mure County Museum1
- Computer-based mollusc stratigraphy - a case study from the Eggenburgian (Lower Miocene) type region (NE Austria)1
- Révision des Gastropoda (Mollusca) du stratotype de L'Aquitanien (Miocéne inf.) site de Saucats "Lariey", Gironde, France1
- Miocene Molluscan biosratigraphy of the Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India1
- Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy1
Each of the 43 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. 3 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 Perrona
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Perrona 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, “Perrona”
- 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 itClavatulidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schumacher 1817)