Pugilina

Pugilina is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.

Pugilina

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MelongenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 107 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 39 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 39 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 39 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 39 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–4.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.3–204 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences113.2 Mya5.333 Mya124 Mya204 ka

39 occurrences of Pugilina 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

39 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

14 formations

Mekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°EMekran — 25.45°N, 62.55°EMekran — 25.50°N, 62.75°EMekran — 25.42°N, 62.88°EBaghmara — 25.18°N, 90.67°EBaghmara — 25.27°N, 90.23°ESingu — 20.93°N, 94.85°EChasra — 23.09°N, 69.05°EChasra — 23.42°N, 68.75°ECercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EMandul Marl — 3.75°N, 117.65°EQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°ESitsayan — 20.17°N, 94.92°EShimo — 35.51°N, 135.51°EDomanda — 29.95°N, 70.12°EWerillup — 34.76°S, 116.72°E

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The named rock units Pugilina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pugilina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pugilina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

760 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Pugilina, 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

19 references

Each of the 39 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. 7 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 content2

Picture of Pugilina

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

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

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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What may have been alongside itMelongenidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schumacher 1817)