Prozonarina regalis

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- ProzonarinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Prozonarina regalis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Prozonarina regalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prozonarina regalis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Prozonarina regalis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Luria (Tessellata) chattica2 sites
- Nucleolaria bezoyensis2 sites
- Plaziatia parasigmapertura2 sites
- Subepona herrerensis2 sites
- Argyrotheca bitnerae1 site
- Creseis spina1 site
- Cypraeopsis (Cypraeopsis) aquensis1 site
- Heliconoides hospes1 site
- Heliconoides linneensis1 site
- Jenneria (Jenneria) nodulosa1 site
- Joania cordata1 site
- Lacazella mediterranea1 site
- Luria (Tessellata) cahuzaci1 site
- Luria (Tessellata) castinea1 site
- Megathiris detruncata1 site
- Miogypsinoides1 site
- Plaziatia amandula1 site
- Plaziatia estotiensis1 site
- Praerosaria biacuta1 site
- Praerosaria charlenae1 site
- Praerosaria herosae1 site
- Praerosaria perlacea1 site
- Praerosaria tabulata1 site
- Prozonarina barcamorpha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Prozonarina regalis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 content1

Picture of Prozonarina regalis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProzonarina through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dolin and Lozouet 2004