Prunum prunum

Prunum prunum

Gmelin, 1791 · CC0 · 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
PrunumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Marginellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Marginellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Marginellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.333 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Prunum prunum on record. 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

4 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

3 formations

Cumana — 10.47°N, 64.15°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°W

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The named rock units Prunum prunum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Prunum prunum, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 content2

Picture of Prunum prunum

Credit
Gmelin, 1791
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPrunum through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)