Ranularia

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.

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RanellinaePBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae

Life habit

epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae

Vision

limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

• Paleocene24%
• Pliocene30%
• Pleistocene41%
• Holocene6%

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.

Where Ranularia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Epitonium3 sites
• Athleta (Volutocorbis)2 sites
• Chicoreus (Naquetia)2 sites
• Conus2 sites
• Cucullaea2 sites
• Eulima2 sites
• Falsifusus2 sites
• Jupiteria2 sites
• Latirus2 sites
• Levifusus2 sites
• Metula2 sites
• Nassarius (Niotha)2 sites
• Nassarius (Zeuxis)2 sites
• Natica (Natica)2 sites
• Naticidae2 sites
• Neverita2 sites
• Oliva2 sites
• Scleractinia2 sites
• Tibia (Sulcogladius) powisi2 sites
• Turris2 sites
• Turritella2 sites
• Vexillum2 sites
• Adusta pulchella1 site
• Aequipecten1 site

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ranularia, 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.

• Types of Cenozoic Mollusca from Java in the Martin Collection of NaturalisLeloux and Wesselingh, 2009 · NNM Technical Bulletin · journal article4
• Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Volutidae through Terebridae)Ladd, 1982 · United States Geological Survey Professional Paper · serial monograph3
• Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American IsthmusBeu, 2010 · Bulletins of American Paleontology · serial monograph2
• Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblagesSessa et al., 2009 · Geology · journal article2
• Preliminary notes on fossil records of East Malaysia and BruneiHashimoto, 1982 · Geology and Palaeontology of Southeast Asia · journal article2
• The benthic mollusk faunas of two contrasting reef paleosubenvironments: Falmouth Formation (late Pleistocene, last interglacial), JamaicaDonovan and Littlewood, 1993 · The Nautilus · journal article1
• Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and CephalopodaPalmer and Brann, 1965 · Bulletins of American Paleontology · serial monograph1
• The Midway Group of TexasGardner, 1933 · The University of Texas Bulletin, Publication Bureau of Economic Geology · journal article1
• The geology of the Farsan Islands, Oizan and Kamaran Island, Red Sea. Part 2.- Molluscan palaeontology.Cox, 1931 · Geological Magazine · journal article1

Each of the 17 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.

What may have been alongside itRanellinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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