Ranella olearium

Ranella olearium, common name the wandering triton or the little frog triton or olive trumpet, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, the tritons.

Ranella olearium

Shellnut · 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
RanellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.8 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–2.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12.8 Mya2.58 Mya14.3 Mya1.3 Mya

3 occurrences of Ranella olearium 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

3 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

2 formations

Korytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°ESabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°E

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The named rock units Ranella olearium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ranella olearium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ranella olearium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ranella olearium, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 content2

Picture of Ranella olearium

Credit
Shellnut
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itRanella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)